#Zimbabwe’s new #dinosaur discovery: inside the find https://theconversation.com/zimbabwes-new-dinosaur-discovery-inside-the-find-231827 paper: https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app011002023.html

"From the houseboat, we used small boats to reach shore and to navigate the sinuous inlets heading inland... we quickly found new material, including the teeth, jaw bones and armour plates of a crocodile-like aquatic predator called a #phytosaur... We also found #lungfish teeth and #dinosaur bones... these #fossils were deposited in an ancient freshwater #swamp"

Fossilized feces found to be infested with #parasites from more than 200 million years ago https://phys.org/news/2023-08-fossilized-feces-infested-parasites-million.html

First discovery of #parasite eggs in a vertebrate #coprolite of the Late #Triassic in Thailand https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287891

"The coprolite is cylindrical in shape and more than 7cm long. Based on its shape and contents, the researchers suggest it was likely produced by some species of #phytosaur, #crocodile-like #predators which are also known from this #fossil locality."

A marine phytosaur and a derived thalattosaur swimming together through Early Jurassic waters.

These are speculative creatures inspired by a pasage from @TetZoo’s new book Ancient Sea Reptiles. Learn more about them here: https://www.manospondylus.com/2023/04/speculative-marine-reptiles-i.html?m=1

#marinereptile #MarineReptiles #phytosaur #thalattosaur #fossil #fossils #paleontology #paleoart #MastoArt #art #stippling #stipplingart #SpeculativeEvolution #crocodile

#Fossils of Giant Phytosaur Unearthed in India https://www.sci.news/paleontology/colossosuchus-techniensis-11722.html

A giant phytosaur (Diapsida, #Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of India with new insights on phytosaur migration, endemism and extinction https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1476

#Colossosuchus techniensis roamed our planet during the Upper #Triassic epoch, between 235 and 208 million years ago. The ancient animal was a type of #phytosaur (family #Phytosauridae), an extinct group of large, mostly semiaquatic #crocodile-like reptiles.

Look at this basking Rutiodon, with a tiny Tanytrachelos perched on its head. A scene from Late Triassic North America

This is an illustration I did several years ago in 2019 and that currently appears in the new book “Mesozoic Art”, published last month. where I am featured alongside many other amazing #paleoartists

#phytosaur #paleoart #illustration #art #digitalart #digitalartist