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.

Scientific drawing alongside skeleton of Platecarpus, a mosasaur from Alabama

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Scientific drawing alongside skeleton of Platecarpus, a mosasaur from Alabama