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marshyoftheblobs.bsky.social
We need to stop calling things "crocodile-like" and start calling them "phytosaur-like" since they came along first

Look at this phytosaur-ass protocetus
December 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
nathandehaut.bsky.social
Rutiodon, a phytosaur from the late Triassic, basking in the sun.

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Illustration of an extinct phytosaur reptile basking along a pond, like modern crocodiles
January 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
hugopaleoart.bsky.social
Mystriosuchus steinbergeri, a aquatic phytosaur.
This is my very first finished digital painting, made in october 2021
#sciart #paleoart #mystriosuchus #phytosaur #triassic
Mystriosuchus steinbergeri
November 18, 2024 at 4:25 PM
serpenillus.bsky.social
Two more amazing Triassic reptiles. In this case from the Late Triassic Keuper Group of Europe. The huge phytosaur Nicrosaurus kapfii and one of the earliest plesiosaurs, Rhaeticosaurus mertensi

Part of my book of Triassic Tetrapods (currently in preparation)

#paleoart #sciart #reptiles
January 20, 2026 at 3:14 PM
thebiobob.bsky.social
I realize I never really posted my work on the Triassic phytosaur skull at the Oertijdmuseum on here. So here (and in the posts below) are some photos. I finished it recently when I cleaned more of the mandible.
#FossilFriday #Phytosaur #paleontology
October 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
hugopaleoart.bsky.social
WIP in digital painting of Gojirasaurus quayi, a giant coelophysoid of Triassic, maybe nomen dubium. Juvenile phytosaur in bottom right.
#paleoart #sciart #dinosaur #gojirasaurus #triassic
Gojirasaurus quayi and a juvenile phytosaur
November 23, 2024 at 4:53 PM
richardjbutler.bsky.social
Any excuse to share this incredible reconstruction by @markwitton.bsky.social of the marine phytosaur Mystriosuchus steinbergeri, which our team described & named in 2019.
November 22, 2024 at 8:54 PM
notthatmarsh.bsky.social
Reassembled a phytosaur humerus this week that I collected at @PetrifiedNPS in November in no fewer than a billion pieces of float. #FossilFriday #phytosaurfriday 🧪🦖
A red binder opened to drawings of a phytosaur upper arm bone, with a fossil in the foreground
March 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
punkpaleo.bsky.social
Happy #FossilFriday, check out this phytosaur skull being prepared! Phytosaurs slunk around waterways during the Late Triassic, likely snapping up any animals that ventured too close to the shoreline. (1/3)
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A partial white phytosaur skull encased in brownish-red rock and a white plaster jacket. The skull is viewed from the top, and its long snout is facing toward the bottom right corner of the image. A pair of googly eyes have been set inside of its eye sockets, giving it a frazzled expression.
January 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
i keep forgetting that phytosaurs are pseudosuchians which is so ridiculous because what else would you call this
art by gabriel ugueto depicting a young phytosaur called rutiodon basking on a riverbank and being pestered by two small, long-necked quadrupeds called tanytrachelos
March 30, 2026 at 3:46 PM
thebiobob.bsky.social
For those who don't know I also prepare fossils, my work includes:

A lacrimal (skull bone/horn) of Allosaurus Big Al Two.

The most complete phytosaur head from Europe.

The only Metoposaurus skull with intact teeth.
#paleontology #dinosaurs #fossil
Left Lacrimal of Allosaurus Big Al Two Right half of a Phytosaur skull from Krasiejów, Poland Metoposaurus skull with teeth from Krasiejów, Poland
October 21, 2024 at 10:29 PM
notthatmarsh.bsky.social
Visited, consolidated, and tarped an upside-down phytosaur skull and mandibles waiting to be excavated this winter❄️ at PetrifiedNPS. #FossilFriday 🧪🦖
Gray and brown rocks with fragmentary fossils in the shape of a phytosaur skull and lower jaws. Same as the previous photo with the bones outlined in red A blue tarp weighed down by rocks covering the fossil bones
November 29, 2024 at 11:30 PM
notthatmarsh.bsky.social
a pretty skull of the phytosaur Redondasaurus collected from the Navajo Nation and housed at @museumofnaz, on loan to PEFO #FossilFriday 🦖🧪
A gray white reptile skull in a black sand table
October 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
davidbflower.bsky.social
Researchers find rare Jurassic-era fossil in Indian village. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jaisalmer: Indian Researchers find rare jurassic-era phytosaur fossil
The fossil, known as a phytosaur, is likely to be more than 200 million years old.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
extinctmonsters.bsky.social
Some display cases in the old brontosaur hall at AMNH (1956–1990)
Long museum case with complete phytosaur skeleton centered, larger phytosaur skull to the left, and some sort of slab to the right. Chalk drawings above. Long musuem case with Lycaenops and dicynodont skeletons, assorted therapsid skulls on the wall Square museum case with Allosaurus, Camarasaurus, and other skulls. Header says Jurassic Dinosaurs: The Morrison Fauna. Museum case with partial Diplodocus skeleton. It's a pelvis with some dorsal and caudal verts on either side and one attached femur. A skull on a stand beneath.
January 18, 2026 at 2:19 AM
notthatmarsh.bsky.social
wandered off from the quarry yesterday just to find a pelvis and hindlimb of a phytosaur waiting for its turn. Here is the tibia. #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖
My hand holding a long white gray shin bone
June 26, 2026 at 2:08 PM
arctomet.bsky.social
First leptosuchomorph phytosaur (Diapsida, Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of India reveals new insights on biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
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September 24, 2026 at 12:08 PM
palaeosingh.bsky.social
For this #FossilFriday, I thought l'd share this photo of a Redondasaurus skeleton on display at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. While it looks like a #crocodile, it’s actually an ancient relative of theirs from the #Triassic - a #phytosaur.

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The mounted skeleton of the phytosaur, Redondasaurus, with its open jaws facing the viewer. On display at the Museum of Natural History & Science in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
April 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
notthatmarsh.bsky.social
top jacket on a smallish phytosaur mandible #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖
White plaster bandages over a v-shaped lower jaw bone in the badlands
July 25, 2026 at 1:13 AM
virtpaleo.bsky.social
I’ve been enjoying getting back to prep as a volunteer at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum. Here’s the phytosaur sacral vertebra I’ve been working on #FossilFriday
Large fossil vertebra, reddish brown in color, propped up on bean bags. An air scribe sits next to it.
October 2, 2026 at 12:56 PM
notthatmarsh.bsky.social
throwback #fossilfriday to the “Gumby” phytosaur site: 2013 v 2026. 🧪🦖
a before and after photo showing a dry wash and badlands
January 30, 2026 at 3:36 PM
batmanelvisigodo.bsky.social
Going back to sketching some triassic iberian fauna with the new guy, Angistorhinus, from the late Triassic of Algarve, Portugal
#paleoart #sciart #phytosaur #Angistorhinus #triassic
December 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
serpenillus.bsky.social
Phytosaur heads sketches
#Paleoart #art 🐍
Line sketches of the heads of four species of Phytosaurs
August 9, 2023 at 1:17 PM
notthatmarsh.bsky.social
sometimes life just puts a phytosaur foot in your trench, you dig? #fossilfriday 🦖🧪
1” paintbrush next to three brown fossil toe bones
July 3, 2026 at 5:33 PM
literallymiguel.bsky.social
Forgot to post this one a while ago-

Mystriosuchus!, any resemblance to crocodilians is purely convergent evolution

Btw, phytosaur taxonomy is a mess, many names don't mean anything, and we're in dire need of someone to clean up almost two centuries of taxonomic salad history😅
May 10, 2026 at 2:02 AM