Tag: rauisuchia

Eons Roundup 8

Once again it’s a PBS Eons commission roundup day!

  • An illustration of an extinct baleen whale. It's looks very similar to modern rorquals, with pleated throat grooves.
    Cerro Ballena rorqual
  • An illustration of an extinct seal. it has an unusually long neck.
    Acrophoca longirostris

An unnamed Cerro Ballena rorqual whale and the long-necked seal Acrophoca, from “How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNk6r5WljGc

  • An illustration of an extinct pseudosuchian, a relative of modern crocodiles. It resembles a dinosaur much more than a croc, standing bipedally, with a long neck, tiny arms, and a long counter-balancing tail.
    Shuvosaurus inexpectatus
  • A skeletal diagram of an extinct pseudosuchian, a relative of modern crocodiles. It resembles a dinosaur much more than a croc, standing bipedally, with a long neck, tiny arms, and a long counter-balancing tail.
    Effigia okeeffeae skeletal diagram

The poposauroid pseudosuchians Shuvosaurus (life restoration) and Effigia (skeletal) from “When Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsmV34Co32c