It could be either one of the thalattosuchian crocodiles of the Mesozoic Era, which had a fish-tail and the hind-legs transformed into flippers, or a surviving mosasaurian, an outsized sea cousin of the monitor lizards.
There is even a mosasaurian deity in seagoer's lore.
A Conway River locality has also provided further mosasaurian material recently, for which the preparation process is understood to be underway by Canterbury Museum staff.
The surface of this skin is composed of small, low tubercles or bumps, the size of a pinhead, not overlapping as in the scales of fishes or snakes or in the mosasaurian reptiles.
Definition of mosasaurian in US English:
mosasaurian
adjective
See mosasaur
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There is even a mosasaurian deity in seagoer's lore.
A Conway River locality has also provided further mosasaurian material recently, for which the preparation process is understood to be underway by Canterbury Museum staff.
The surface of this skin is composed of small, low tubercles or bumps, the size of a pinhead, not overlapping as in the scales of fishes or snakes or in the mosasaurian reptiles.
It could be either one of the thalattosuchian crocodiles of the Mesozoic Era, which had a fish-tail and the hind-legs transformed into flippers, or a surviving mosasaurian, an outsized sea cousin of the monitor lizards.