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A redo of my most popular image.
The 3D Mosasaur was created by myself (Craig Dylke). Contact me about my 3D art at fossil3d@gmail.com
The head is very complex as you have to sink in and out many times. This aspect of the model was folded in the airport.
Pteranodon Longiceps
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Mosasaurus Hoffmanni
Triceratops Horridus
Velociraptor Mongoliensis ( Skeleton )
Been a while since I've done any toy photography, and some of these new Mattel Jurassic World toys really lend themselves to it. So here's my take on the Mosasaurus.
Apatosaurus, previously known as Brontosaurus, is a genus of sauropod dinosaurs that lived about 140 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period. They were some of the largest land animals that ever existed, about 4.5 metres (15 feet) tall at the hips, with a length of up to 21 m (70 feet) and a mass up to 35 metric tonnes (40 tons). Their name means 'deceptive lizard', so-named because the chevron bones were like those of Mosasaurus (Greek apatelos or apatelios meaning 'deceptive' and sauros meaning 'lizard').
The cervical vertebrae and the bones in the legs were bigger and heavier than that of Diplodocus although, like Diplodocus, Apatosaurus also had both a long neck and a long tail. The tail was held above the ground during normal locomotion. Like most sauropods, Apatosaurus had only a single large claw on each forelimb. The skull was first identified in 1975, a century after this dinosaur acquired its name.
("Lizard of the Meuse River") genus of mosasaur, a carnivorous, aquatic lizard. The genus lived in the Maastrichtian age of the Cretaceous period (Mesozoic era), around 70-65 millions years ago.
Dinosaur Court
This series of sculpted dinosaurs and extinct mammals was commissioned in 1854 and unveiled in 1856. This was designed to accompany the Crystal Palace in its new home in Bromley.
The beasts were built by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, and were the first of their kind. Hawkins was assisted with Sir Richard Owen providing some technical guidance on the dinosaurs.
The design of some of these dinosaurs are rather innacurate, but others are believed to be quite realistic.
Crystal Palace Park came from the Penge Place estate when, in 1854, the Crystal Palace was moved from Hyde Park (where it was set up in 1851 for The Great Exhibition).
The Crystal Palace was designed by Joseph Paxton, who also played a role in the relocation and designing the new site with its Italian gardens and terraces.
The area waned in the late c19th, and despite hosting the Festival of Empire in 1911, the managing company declared bankruptcy. In 1913 the Earl of Plymouth purchased it to save it, and a public supscription was raised to purchase it for the nation.
It was a naval training ground during the Great War, after which it was the first Imperial War Museum.
The 1920s saw a programme of restoration and rejuvenation, but 30 November 1936 an office fire broke out and the building burned down.
Since then the Park has hosted various events and partial development. Today it is primarily a public park.
Taken in Crystal Palace
WOW! I was looking through all my old Screen shots and came across these two!
This is from 2017! CRAZY! Mossu was the first brand I dedicated to following and they're still around today! AWESOME!
I am ALSO the big "Dinosaur" I thought it'd be funny for a Mosasaurus to go take pictures in front of Mossu lol The lady is someone who wanted a pic with me ha ha!
GOOD TIMES!
MOSASAURS
Tylosaurs (including Mosasaurus and Hainosaurus) were the largest mosasaurs. This subfamily of mosasaurs lived in the seas during the late Cretaceous period.
(pronounced MOES-ah-SAWR) Mosasaurs were giant, serpentine (snake-like) marine reptiles. They were not dinosaurs, but were related to snakes and monitor lizards. Mosasaurs were powerful swimmers, reptiles that had adapted to living in shallow seas. These carnivores (meat-eaters) still breathed air. They were a short-lived line of reptiles that went extinct during the K-T extinction, 65 million years ago.
Some Mosasaurs include the Mosasaurus (40-59 ft. feet=12.5-17.6 m long with sharp teeth from the North Atlantic), Platecarpus, Tylosaurus (33-40 feet=10-12.3 m long with sharp teeth, from the North and South Atlantic), Plotosaurus, Clidastes, Plioplatecarpus, and Globidens (with flat teeth for crushing shellfish). The first Mosasaur discovered, Mosasaurus hoffmani, was found in the Netherlands in 1780.
ANATOMY
Mosasaurs were powerful swimmers that had a long, streamlined body. The long head had very pointed, powerful jaws with many sharp teeth. Mosasaurs had four short, paddle-like limbs adapted to life in the water. A long tail, perhaps finned, completed its serpentine body.
Mosasaurs probably had scaly skin; fossil impressions of scales were found near the bones of Plotocarpus, showing a snake-like skin.
WHEN THE MOSASAURS LIVED
The various mosasaurs lived during the late Cretaceous period, going extinct during the K-T extinction, 65 million years ago.
BREATHING
Although Mosasaurs lived their lives in the seas, they still needed to breathe air and had to surface periodically in order to breathe.
DIET
Mosasaurs were carnivores; they hunted and ate fish, turtles, mollusks, and shellfish. Fossil ammonites have been found with many telltale Mosasaur toothprints in their shells, indicating that Mosasaurs repeated bit these hard-shelled animals in order to break their shell and get to the soft meat.
LOCOMOTION
Mosasaurs were powerful swimmers who spent their entires lives in the seas. Mosasaurs probably swam by moving their long body in a snake-like way, also using their finned tail to propel them forwards. They steered with small, webbed feet.
THE NAME MOSASAUR
The name Mosasaur means "Meuse lizard," they were named for the Meuse river in Holland, near the underground limestone mine where Mosasaur fossils were first found.
DISCOVERY OF FOSSILS
Mosasaur fossils have been found in Europs and North America (and a few in Africa and Israel).
CLASSIFICATION
Mosasaur were reptiles, but not dinosaurs. They are:
Vertebrates
Tetrapods
Diapsids - these include all the reptiles (except turtles) and birds. They are distinguished by having two holes in the rear upper part of their skulls and two holes behind the eyes.
Order Squamata - which includes lizards and snakes
Family Mosasauridae - Mosasaurs
Subfamily Mosasaurinae long-bodied mosasaurs (Gervais, 1853) - including the genera Mosasaurus (Conybeare, 1822), Clistades (Cope, 1868), Liodon (Owen, 1840), Batrachiosaurus (Harlam, 1842), Amphekepubis (Mehl, 1929), Plotosaurus (Camp, 1951), Goronyosaurus (Azzaroli, de Guili, Ficcarelli & Torre, 1972), Globidens (Gilmore, 1912), Carinodens (Thurmond, 1969), Moanasaurus (Wiffen, 1980)
Subfamily Plioplatecarpinae short-bodied mosasaurs (Dollo, 1884) - including the genera Pliplatecarpus (Dollo, 1882), Platecarpus (Cope, 1869), Holcodus (Gibbes, 1850), Sironectes (Cope, 1840), Holosaurus (Marsh, 1880), Ancylocentrum (Schmidt, 1929), Baptosaurus (Marsh 1870), Dollosaurus (Yakovlew, 1901), Prognatosaurus (Dollo, 1889), Igdamanosaurus (Lingham-Soliar, 1991), Halisaurus (Marsh, 1869), Prognathodon, Selmasaurus, Yaguarasaurus, Plesiotylosaurus (Camp, 1942)
Subfamily Tylosaurinae enormous, short-bodied mosasaurs with abony, toothless snout extension (Williston, 1897) - including the genera Tylosaurus (Marsh, 1872), Macrosaurus (Owen, 1859), Lesticodus (Leidi, 1859), Nectoportheus (Cope, 1868), Hainosaurus (Dollo, 1885), Taniwhasaurus (Hector, 1874)
PLIOPLATECARPUS
(pronounced PLEE-oh-PLAT-ee-CAR-pus) Plioplatecarpus was a mosasaur, a marine reptile that swam in shallow seas during the late Cretaceous period. They were not dinosaurs. These powerful swimmers were about 20 feet (6 m) long. They had a big head, large brain, big eyes, four flippers, and a tail that ended in a fin. Carnivores, they had sharp teeth, which they used to catch fish and cephalopods. Fossils have been found in North America. One Plioplatecarpus fossils was found with a fossilized embryo inside it; this seems to indicate that Plioplatecarpus gave bith to live young. Plioplatecarpus was named by Dollo in 1884; the type species is Plioplatecarpus marshii (named to honor O. Marsh).
The mosasaurus was tough to hunt down. This was the only one I ever found from all the shops I went to.
The only figure I didn't buy is the giant Indominus with rubber jaws. I'm not really a fan of that one.
A few more "bashers and biters" and raptor "growler" figures will be released in autumn, and I expect those will be tough to find too.
Also not a dinosaur! And it needs water.
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MOSASAURS
Tylosaurs (including Mosasaurus and Hainosaurus) were the largest mosasaurs. This subfamily of mosasaurs lived in the seas during the late Cretaceous period.
(pronounced MOES-ah-SAWR) Mosasaurs were giant, serpentine (snake-like) marine reptiles. They were not dinosaurs, but were related to snakes and monitor lizards. Mosasaurs were powerful swimmers, reptiles that had adapted to living in shallow seas. These carnivores (meat-eaters) still breathed air. They were a short-lived line of reptiles that went extinct during the K-T extinction, 65 million years ago.
Some Mosasaurs include the Mosasaurus (40-59 ft. feet=12.5-17.6 m long with sharp teeth from the North Atlantic), Platecarpus, Tylosaurus (33-40 feet=10-12.3 m long with sharp teeth, from the North and South Atlantic), Plotosaurus, Clidastes, Plioplatecarpus, and Globidens (with flat teeth for crushing shellfish). The first Mosasaur discovered, Mosasaurus hoffmani, was found in the Netherlands in 1780.
ANATOMY
Mosasaurs were powerful swimmers that had a long, streamlined body. The long head had very pointed, powerful jaws with many sharp teeth. Mosasaurs had four short, paddle-like limbs adapted to life in the water. A long tail, perhaps finned, completed its serpentine body.
Mosasaurs probably had scaly skin; fossil impressions of scales were found near the bones of Plotocarpus, showing a snake-like skin.
WHEN THE MOSASAURS LIVED
The various mosasaurs lived during the late Cretaceous period, going extinct during the K-T extinction, 65 million years ago.
BREATHING
Although Mosasaurs lived their lives in the seas, they still needed to breathe air and had to surface periodically in order to breathe.
DIET
Mosasaurs were carnivores; they hunted and ate fish, turtles, mollusks, and shellfish. Fossil ammonites have been found with many telltale Mosasaur toothprints in their shells, indicating that Mosasaurs repeated bit these hard-shelled animals in order to break their shell and get to the soft meat.
LOCOMOTION
Mosasaurs were powerful swimmers who spent their entires lives in the seas. Mosasaurs probably swam by moving their long body in a snake-like way, also using their finned tail to propel them forwards. They steered with small, webbed feet.
THE NAME MOSASAUR
The name Mosasaur means "Meuse lizard," they were named for the Meuse river in Holland, near the underground limestone mine where Mosasaur fossils were first found.
DISCOVERY OF FOSSILS
Mosasaur fossils have been found in Europs and North America (and a few in Africa and Israel).
CLASSIFICATION
Mosasaur were reptiles, but not dinosaurs. They are:
Vertebrates
Tetrapods
Diapsids - these include all the reptiles (except turtles) and birds. They are distinguished by having two holes in the rear upper part of their skulls and two holes behind the eyes.
Order Squamata - which includes lizards and snakes
Family Mosasauridae - Mosasaurs
Subfamily Mosasaurinae long-bodied mosasaurs (Gervais, 1853) - including the genera Mosasaurus (Conybeare, 1822), Clistades (Cope, 1868), Liodon (Owen, 1840), Batrachiosaurus (Harlam, 1842), Amphekepubis (Mehl, 1929), Plotosaurus (Camp, 1951), Goronyosaurus (Azzaroli, de Guili, Ficcarelli & Torre, 1972), Globidens (Gilmore, 1912), Carinodens (Thurmond, 1969), Moanasaurus (Wiffen, 1980)
Subfamily Plioplatecarpinae short-bodied mosasaurs (Dollo, 1884) - including the genera Pliplatecarpus (Dollo, 1882), Platecarpus (Cope, 1869), Holcodus (Gibbes, 1850), Sironectes (Cope, 1840), Holosaurus (Marsh, 1880), Ancylocentrum (Schmidt, 1929), Baptosaurus (Marsh 1870), Dollosaurus (Yakovlew, 1901), Prognatosaurus (Dollo, 1889), Igdamanosaurus (Lingham-Soliar, 1991), Halisaurus (Marsh, 1869), Prognathodon, Selmasaurus, Yaguarasaurus, Plesiotylosaurus (Camp, 1942)
Subfamily Tylosaurinae enormous, short-bodied mosasaurs with abony, toothless snout extension (Williston, 1897) - including the genera Tylosaurus (Marsh, 1872), Macrosaurus (Owen, 1859), Lesticodus (Leidi, 1859), Nectoportheus (Cope, 1868), Hainosaurus (Dollo, 1885), Taniwhasaurus (Hector, 1874)
PLIOPLATECARPUS
(pronounced PLEE-oh-PLAT-ee-CAR-pus) Plioplatecarpus was a mosasaur, a marine reptile that swam in shallow seas during the late Cretaceous period. They were not dinosaurs. These powerful swimmers were about 20 feet (6 m) long. They had a big head, large brain, big eyes, four flippers, and a tail that ended in a fin. Carnivores, they had sharp teeth, which they used to catch fish and cephalopods. Fossils have been found in North America. One Plioplatecarpus fossils was found with a fossilized embryo inside it; this seems to indicate that Plioplatecarpus gave bith to live young. Plioplatecarpus was named by Dollo in 1884; the type species is Plioplatecarpus marshii (named to honor O. Marsh).