MESOZOIC MARINERS

 

Mesozoic Mariners, acrylic on canvas, 2024. 24" X 16.5"

The artwork depicts a Tyrannosaurus swimming past a scenery of marine life from the Mesozoic era. The artist intends to show the breaking of the boundaries between two different worlds, as the T. rex, a land creature, is shown to be able to swim.

This act has been backed by fossil evidence - scientists found both ripple marks and mud cracks in a riverbed, indicating the dinosaur was swimming against a current, and noticed distinct claw marks that stretched 50 feet apart from each other, showing the T. rex may occasionally have paddled long distances through water. Additionally, the dinosaur's hollow bones would have allowed it to swim.

The aquatic creatures in the artwork include:

  • Globidens, a mosasaur
  • Platypterygius, an ichthyosaur
  • Hydrotherosaurus, a plesiosaur
  • Macropoma, small members of the coelacanth family
  • Psephoderma, turtle-like placodonts
  • Hybodus, a primitive shark
  • Pachydiscus, an ammonite 
  • Baculites, long-shelled cephalopods
  • Plesiosuchus, a marine crocodile
  • Nothosaurus, a marine reptile which resembles a swimming lizard
  • Mesolimulus, a horseshoe crab

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