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Rows of Plates
From Colbert and Mook 1951Protosuchus' skeleton demonstrates the mentioned double row of bony plates extremely well. The long almost gracile legs, for a crocodilian, are also clearly evident. The long...
View ArticleWhen Not As Cool As Dinosaurs
A lot of the animals that are discussed in these week-long discussions are not exactly as awesome as dinosaurs in the eyes of the public. Then there are some, like Protosuchus, that are just simply not...
View ArticleNowhere To Walk
Protosuchus missed a lot of the before-the-dinosaurs documentaries associated with the Walking With series. There is very little video evidence of Protosuchus models in use in any situation actually....
View ArticleAncestral Writings
The source material, when available, is always fun to read. It is usually informative as well regardless of how accurate the initial description is (the initial Plesiosaurus descriptions equated the...
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What Else Can You Do?
The majority of reports and discussions about Protosuchus appear to have a general consensus about the fact that the tail of this fossil appears to have many, and large, muscle attachments. The...
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Strange Zoo Animals
Protosuchus makes a very important guest appearance in Zoo Tycoon 2. Modded in twice by users Zooasaurus and King Hoopla, the Protosuchus of this popular game uses the model textures of the Nile River...
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Allow Me To Continue
The past few weeks there have not been any dinosaurs here. There was a plesiosaur and then an early crocodilian and now, this week, there is an archosaur of wonderful proportions. A suggested herbivore...
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Real Southwestern Animal Attitude
Museum of Natural History (Public Domain Release by Photographer)Desmatosuchus from any angle looks like a pretty tough animal. The plating along the entire back of the animal from neck to tail is a...
View ArticlePlays Well With Others
The links available for children about Desmatosuchus are a little bit less populated than one would think, given that Desmatosuchus is a charismatic and interesting looking archosaur. The shoulder...
View ArticleSaving Movies
There are a lot of videos out on the internet with Desmatosuchus as the main character or 3D model. Most of them I want to save for Thursday. Instead, and because none of those videos are related to...
View ArticlePapers Everywhere
The papers discussing Desmatosuchus are plenty and available everywhere. Rather than going into detail on every paper that I looked up and perused to share with everyone today it is much more prudent...
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Grouper or Land Animal?
Desmatosuchus is described as having a "pig-like" skull. Why would anyone (this image could be slightly altered post-DK publishing) change the head of this animal so that it looked not like a pig but...
View ArticlePopular Movie and Video Outlets
Desmatosuchus is a popular model in videos and games, old and new. It appears in dinosaur encyclopedias, despite not being a dinosaur. It also appears as an inspiration in Spore a few times. This one...
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Ocean Voyages
In the continuing tradition of April, this week is another deviation from the norm. Rather than venturing back into the Mesozoic and staying on land, this week the plan is to slide off the beach and...
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Just Floating Around
Dunkleosteus has never been touted as a fast swimmer, in part because their armored head was heavy enough that the massive muscles it must have possessed in order to swim in the first place would have...
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Swimming and Scaring Kids
Davi Blight's illustration of Dunkleosteus attacking some children is pretty awesome, despite being pretty detrimental to the children in the illustration. There are number of fairly good information...
View ArticleBig Fish In The Sea
Perhaps there should not be, but there are a lot of Animal Planet and BBC clips featuring Dunkleosteus online. That is, of course, because there were so many of those clips in different documentaries...
View ArticleBite and Feed
The majority of papers on Dunkleosteus are focused on one of two things: either describing and referring new partial specimens or discussing bite force and feeding strategies. There are most likely...
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Placoderm Heights
The placoderms appear in the fossil record during the Silurian, but the apex predator of the ocean that we call Dunkleosteus began to appear in the Late Devonian, near the decline and extinction of all...
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Dunkleosteus Skull Armor Ocean Fish Dinosaur Figurines
You have to love mistranslations from Asian languages. The title I used today came from an eBay listing selling a small plastic skull of Dunkleosteus. Domestically there are cheaper figures available...
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