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From the album: Hell Creek Formation Microsite
These large lizards are kin to modern monitors like the Komodo dragon. The possess sharp, finely serrated teeth and long claws good for climbing and digging. They likely preyed on smaller animals like other lizards and mammals, and may have been the bane of parent dinosaurs as some paleontologists have suggested they could raid dinosaur nests. Varanoid “monitor lizard” fossils. A) trunk vertebra, missing a good portion of the process; B) tooth showing basal cross section silhouette and closeup of serrations.-
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From the album: Hell Creek / Lance Formations
A monitor lizard from the very end of the Cretaceous. The carinae are slightly serrated, and in basal view the mesial carina projects from the silhouette like a wing.-
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- hell creek formation
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From the album: Squamates
A tooth from a small monitor lizard that lived among the dinosaurs of West Texas ~ 80 million years ago.-
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- aguja
- aguja formation
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From the album: Aguja Formation
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