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Mastodonsaurus giganteus swim in the Middle Triassic lake in Germany.
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Was this drawing based on the reconstructed long-tailed skeleton from Stuttgart?
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~Plioart Feb 24, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
а всё увидел это отверстия для зубов на нижней челюсти.
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~Plioart Feb 24, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
хороший мастодонзавр. особенно привлекает четыре ноздри. что-то я не помню на других рекострукциях этого.
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~hyphenatedsuperhero Aug 4, 2009  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Fantastic. Looks so menacing.
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:icondibgd:
Thank you!
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:iconpiatnitskysaurus:
on second thought, your metoposaurs fit the bill, lungs=scales of course, but these look leathery as if scales were secondarily lost, or under the skin.

As with dinosaurs, bald or scaly forms of even transitional creatures is possible, even likely. Solnhofen was apparently arid, so possibly compsognathus was scaley, and as such, mastodonsaurus could have had leathery skin, seeing as tropical climates tend to favor non-overlapping scales or plain none at all, to avoid infection.
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:icondibgd:
Skin of Mastodonsaurus was most probably scaleless, because on big capitosaurs we don't know scales (even on belly region).
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:iconpiatnitskysaurus:
How is the preservation? mind you, I know that in russia preservation can be mind-blowing.
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:icondibgd:
Russian capitosaurs is known jnly by skulls and some pieces of postcrania. About skin of capitosaurs - see, for example, original description of Paracyclotosaurus by DMS Watson: some little scales was found, but not overlapped. Also exists article of F. WITZMANN (2006) about temnospodyl scalation.
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