Friday, July 10, 2009

Another Armadillosuchus Rendition


Hopefully this is more accurate than that other one I found. The teeth are certainly interesting. Are there more Armadillosuchus restorations out there? Link to the paper. Nick Gardner's post is excellent, too.

4 comments:

Nick said...

Speaking of my post, I'll have to take some time and flesh it out a bit more. I really find these taxa to be very interesting, and have some more to say on them. :)

-Nick

Matt Celeskey said...

There seem to be a lot of different restorations/reconstructions out there for such a new animal:

In addition to the 'glyptodont-shelled' skeleton figured at National Geographic News, pictures of skeleton with similar (inaccurate?) lateral hexagonal plates forming a less-extensive carapace are on display at a museum in Rio de Janiero: [pic 1] [pic 2]. The second shows more (casts?) of the original material (including what looks like a nice, slender manus), and a sculpted life restoration in the background (also seen here).

Other life restorations can be seen here and here.

My favorite, though, is this restoration based on the carapaced-skeleton shown at National Geographic News. Horribly inaccurate, but what character!

The fossil is fascinating in its own right, but this 'xenarthraned-up' model adds an interesting twist to the story. Nick, do you know any more about who put that skeleton together?

Nick said...

Don't know, I only know that Thiago wasn't responsible for it. I can do some digging and maybe find out.

Will Baird said...

There really *IS* a lot of renditions for this one. An unusual amount. I wonder why...