And here's the holotype of Tecovaserpeton perfectum in person!
September 25, 2026 at 8:46 PM
And here's the holotype of Tecovaserpeton perfectum in person!
Just in time for #FossilFriday: a new genus of metoposaur at UMMP.
The second I am calling Tecovaserpeton perfectum, and it is known (not surprisingly) primarily from the Tecovas Fm in TX. Its holotype was originally named Buettneria perfecta by Case in 1922, and it is a shockingly "perfect" specimen aside from being squished and missing the tabular horns.
September 25, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Just in time for #FossilFriday: a new genus of metoposaur at UMMP.
Osteoderm studies.
September 28, 2023 at 2:03 PM
Osteoderm studies.
#temnovember2025 day 25 :Buettnererpeton
Day 25 and now its time for #Buettnererpeton, a thin skull #metoposaur from the late #Triassic of northamerica
#Paleoart #sciart #amphibian #temnospondyl #metoposaurus
Day 25 and now its time for #Buettnererpeton, a thin skull #metoposaur from the late #Triassic of northamerica
#Paleoart #sciart #amphibian #temnospondyl #metoposaurus
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
#temnovember2025 day 25 :Buettnererpeton
Day 25 and now its time for #Buettnererpeton, a thin skull #metoposaur from the late #Triassic of northamerica
#Paleoart #sciart #amphibian #temnospondyl #metoposaurus
Day 25 and now its time for #Buettnererpeton, a thin skull #metoposaur from the late #Triassic of northamerica
#Paleoart #sciart #amphibian #temnospondyl #metoposaurus
September 30, 2024 at 2:07 PM
My advisor: did you think about this interpretation of your data?
Me:
Me:
June 21, 2026 at 1:30 PM
My advisor: did you think about this interpretation of your data?
Me:
Me:
Gonna have some good stuff to show folks at Dinofest this weekend!*
*not necessarily dinosaurs
*not necessarily dinosaurs
September 22, 2023 at 6:48 PM
Gonna have some good stuff to show folks at Dinofest this weekend!*
*not necessarily dinosaurs
*not necessarily dinosaurs
Back to the Thursday collection routine after a chaotic few weeks. Today, some visiting researchers were studying this phytosaur and metoposaur material collected by E. C. Case in UMMP's early days.
August 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Back to the Thursday collection routine after a chaotic few weeks. Today, some visiting researchers were studying this phytosaur and metoposaur material collected by E. C. Case in UMMP's early days.
THAT is a metoposaur???!!!! Courtesy of an ignorant picture editor.
January 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
THAT is a metoposaur???!!!! Courtesy of an ignorant picture editor.
Another Triassic sketch, the very weird and good amphibian metoposaur
#art #artist #sketchbook #beastmode
#art #artist #sketchbook #beastmode
May 6, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Another Triassic sketch, the very weird and good amphibian metoposaur
#art #artist #sketchbook #beastmode
#art #artist #sketchbook #beastmode
A new Triassic metoposaur from the Popo Age Fm, Wyoming
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
A new metoposaurid (Temnospondyli) bonebed from the lower Popo Agie Formation (Carnian, Triassic) and an assessment of skeletal sorting
Metoposaurid-dominated bonebeds are relatively commonplace in Upper Triassic continental deposits with at least ten monodominant, densely-packed bonebeds globally. The biostratinomy of several classic...
dx.plos.org
July 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
A new Triassic metoposaur from the Popo Age Fm, Wyoming
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Finally something my esoteric knowledge can help with - the site is more often called Sierrita de la Cruz and is thought to be the same bonebed (or at least horizon) to a monodominant metoposaur bonebed reposited at the Panhandle Plains Museum: books.google.com/books/about/...
ROTTEN HILL: A LATE TRIASSIC BONEBED IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE, USA
books.google.com
February 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Finally something my esoteric knowledge can help with - the site is more often called Sierrita de la Cruz and is thought to be the same bonebed (or at least horizon) to a monodominant metoposaur bonebed reposited at the Panhandle Plains Museum: books.google.com/books/about/...
Nature contains a surprising number of toilet-shaped things*, it’s nice to know a few actually are.
*Specifically thinking of how paleontologists painted the skull of a large amphibian (metoposaur) on the seat of a portable toilet because of the resemblance
*Specifically thinking of how paleontologists painted the skull of a large amphibian (metoposaur) on the seat of a portable toilet because of the resemblance
October 1, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Nature contains a surprising number of toilet-shaped things*, it’s nice to know a few actually are.
*Specifically thinking of how paleontologists painted the skull of a large amphibian (metoposaur) on the seat of a portable toilet because of the resemblance
*Specifically thinking of how paleontologists painted the skull of a large amphibian (metoposaur) on the seat of a portable toilet because of the resemblance
That one is also Anaschisma, I unfortunately became a metoposaur expert about 2 yrs too late or I would have changed the sign. "Buettneria howardensis" has been a synonym of the now defunct "Buettneria perfecta"/"Koskinonodon perfectus" for ~70 yrs, I assume they just read it off the catalogue card
November 27, 2024 at 12:12 AM
That one is also Anaschisma, I unfortunately became a metoposaur expert about 2 yrs too late or I would have changed the sign. "Buettneria howardensis" has been a synonym of the now defunct "Buettneria perfecta"/"Koskinonodon perfectus" for ~70 yrs, I assume they just read it off the catalogue card
It's Portfolio Day! I draw fossils of all kinds and specialize in skulls.
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January 9, 2024 at 2:46 PM
It's Portfolio Day! I draw fossils of all kinds and specialize in skulls.
🎨🧪
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Drew some doodles while volunteering at the paleo lab yesterday!
June 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Drew some doodles while volunteering at the paleo lab yesterday!
Metoposaur temnospondyl is fren?
January 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Metoposaur temnospondyl is fren?
Nice work! But now I’m wishing that half metoposaur skull in that hill had been an aetosaur 😂
November 19, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Nice work! But now I’m wishing that half metoposaur skull in that hill had been an aetosaur 😂
most. despite the easy prey, Chiniquodon had competition in the form of several unnamed predators, like a Phytosaur, a kind of crocodile like reptile that existed for 28 million years, a Metoposaur, an ancient amphibious tetrapod that would die out at the end of the triassic, and a Stereospondyl-
July 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
most. despite the easy prey, Chiniquodon had competition in the form of several unnamed predators, like a Phytosaur, a kind of crocodile like reptile that existed for 28 million years, a Metoposaur, an ancient amphibious tetrapod that would die out at the end of the triassic, and a Stereospondyl-