30-Day Retrosaur Art Challenge - Day #16 - Short-Tailed Sea Tyrant
Chelonosuchus densocuticus – “Thick-Skinned Turtle Crocodile”
(Shell-On-Oh-Sue-Kuss) (Den-So-Cute-Ih-Kuss)
The last of the three known types of Sea Tyrants were made up mostly of true titans! Short-Tailed Sea Tyrants were some of the largest creatures in the oceans of prehistoric times. The largest of them had heads nearly twice as long as human and railroad-spike sized teeth. Chelonosuchus was a heavily armored turtle-like beast with teeth shaped like the chompers of modern sperm whales it used to pulverize and puncture the fins of other marine animals. Most of the time they would have preyed upon Long-Tailed Sea Tyrants but literally anything else in the oceans would do, for Chelonosuchus were some of the largest ever found. Like all other Sea Tyrants, Chelonosuchus had a set of long, thin claws jutting out of the front flippers that could not be moved independently like true digits, and would have been used for many things, like intraspecific combat, food entrapment, and hauling themselves up onto beaches to lay their eggs.
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