#FossilAdventCalendar day 13: #Edgarosaurus muddi holotype (MOR 751).

Plesiosaurs like Edgarosaurus were air breathing marine reptiles that swam the seas 🌊 while dinosaurs lived on land.

The bountiful Western Interior Cretaceous Seaway teemed with life 🐟 that supported these large marine animals.

I feel like artificially-lit deep sea #paleoart is a unique artifact of our time where photography/video of the deepest & darkest parts of the ocean is fairly commonplace and accessible
#sciart

41 – 50!
Just another and final bunch of sketches.
#sketch #sketchbook #dinosaur #pterosaur #pathoftitans #carnotaurus #metriacanthosaurus #tyrannotitan #pterodon #concavenator #anodontosaurs #irritator #dreadnaughtus #edgarosaurus #styracosaurus #feral

Here is the type of Edgarosaurus muddi on display at the Museum of the Rockies. I really want to improve my knowledge base for marine reptiles since they are extremely cool, but right now, I never go out of my way to learn about them

This is getting me hyped up for the Balticon science track. Based on Dr Holtz's twitter feed, he may be discussing this paper on plesiosaurs
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00466-9