In this video we will compare the real Mosasaurus to the larger than life Jurassic World rendition of the animal! The Mosasaurus was the mightiest ocean predator of it’s time, but how different is the real animal from Hollywood's take? Watch this animation to find out!
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SOURCES
Jurassic World Mosasaurus Size Reference (Test footage from Fallen Kingdom):
►https://www.instagram.com/p/BxiPZf-F8bA/?igshid=kegp0mvtp04k
Mosasaurus Hoffmanni:
Anatomy (Note this paper was written in 1995 and does not account for the larger Ichthyosaurs)
►https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.1995.0019
Size
►https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_318_2/TZ_318_2_Grigoriev.pdf
Additional Sources on M. hoffmanni:
►https://geology.rutgers.edu/images/stories/faculty/miller_kenneth_g/kgmpdf/12-Gallagher.GeolFrance.pdf
►https://www.geology.lu.se/sites/geology.lu.se/files/abstract_volume_mmv_2016.pdf
►https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/69E1A6D0EC1FF1C6A5ACF3385DF4986C/S0016774614000274a.pdf/mosasaur_from_the_maastrichtian_fox_hills_formation_of_the_northern_western_interior_seaway_of_the_united_states_and_the_synonymy_of_mosasaurus_maximus_with_mosasaurus_hoffmanni_reptilia_mosasauridae.pdf
►https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/7AE5F4A5702AD644190524E737140885/S0016774600020515a.pdf/large_new_mosasaur_from_the_upper_cretaceous_of_the_netherlands.pdf
Coloration based on related species
►https://bigbendpaleogeojournal.homestead.com/Mosasaur_skin.pdf
Tail fluke based on related species
►https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3423
Mosasaurus Lemonnieri
►https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286977949_The_mosasaur_mosasaurus_lemonnieri_Lepidosauromorpha_Squamata_from_the_upper_cretaceous_of_Belgium_and_the_Netherlands
Paleobiota of the Maastricht Formation:
►https://www.deviantart.com/paleosir/art/Maastricht-formation-school-paper-785783146
Music used in the video was done by Byron Mckay and Siaka Dibba
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