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Platecarpus
Platecarpus
This skeleton and artist's rendering of
Platycarpus tympaniticus
shows the dual-lobed tail displayed by this type of
mosasaur
. Scientists surmise that they had such lobes because the vertebrae that make up their tails curve downward.