User:Macrophyseter

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Contributions (Draft archive)

This editor won the Quarter Million Award for bringing Mosasaurus to Featured Article status.

This editor won the Quarter Million Award for bringing Mosasaurus to Good Article status.

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Adaptations, derivations, and original art

Visual diagram of gray whale seafloor feeding



Annotated schematic of the skull anatomy of Mosasaurus hoffmannii	Life restoration of Mosasaurus lemonnieri

Restoration of Yaguarasaurus columbianus as a tethysaur

Restoration of Thalassotitan atrox



Restoration of Plesiotylosaurus crassidens	Outline of Plesiotylosaurus crassidens holotype (LACM 2759)

Dental reconstruction of Cretoxyrhina mantelli



Illustrated schematic of gut contents inside a fossil Tylosaurus proriger (SDSM 10439)	Scale diagram of Cretoxyrhina mantelli specimens

Cranial kinesis comparison between Tylosaurus and Plotosaurus

Evolution of the great white shark Carcharodon carcharias



Reconstructed scenario of a Tylosaurus attack on its own kind. Adapted from Williston (1898) and Everhart (2008)	Growth curves of Tylosaurus individuals based on lines of arrested growth (LAG) in fossil limbs. Adapted from Pellegrini (2009)

Core distribution of Rice's whale. Adapted from Rosel et al. (2021)

Restoration of Albicetus oxymycterus

Photo Gallery

Original photographs

Mounted skeleton of Plotosaurus bennisoni at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (CIT 2750)



Pacific spiny dogfish at Monterey Bay Aquarium	Japanese spider crab at Monterey Bay Aquarium

Complete skeleton of Clidastes propython (Labeled as C. liodontus) at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH FR 192)



Little penguins at Birch Aquarium	Pacific footballfish at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO 21-41)

White sturgeon at the Monterey Bay Aquarium



Fossil of Pseudorhina alifera at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH 7484)	Atopotarus courseni at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM 1376)



Euclastes sp. skeleton from Angola	Otodus auriculatus tooth from Togo



Angolasaurus bocagei fossil from Angola	Cosmopolitodus planus teeth from California

Appreciation

Lamniformes

Thank you for quality articles about extinct fish of prey such as Cretoxyrhina (your first TFA) and Cardabiodon, for beginning with substantial article improvement, for defending the impact of extinct animal on today's world, - fishy swimmer, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

		The Featured Article Medal
		By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this special, very exclusive award created just for we few, we happy few, this band of brothers, who have shed sweat, tears and probably blood, in order to be able to proudly claim "I too have taken an article to Featured status". Gog the Mild (talk) 09:17, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

	The Quarter Million Award
	For your contributions to bring Mosasaurus (estimated annual readership: 420,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Quarter Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg (talk) 12:26, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

	The Quarter Million Award
	For your contributions to bring Mosasaurus (estimated annual readership: 420,000) to Featured Article status, I hereby present you the Quarter Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg (talk) 12:26, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

About user
I'm an early-career oceanographer who is also passionate about natural history, my focus on Wikipedia is typically on marine and paleontological topics. I enjoy teaching, and being a Wikipedian is one product of this enjoyment.

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