#prehistoric turtle

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[lordrenskylar]

😦Bowser as he appeared in Super Mario Brothers 2!

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Prehistoric turt

The Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller

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[fuckyeahwaterdinosaurs]

If tha 1rst thing that came to yo mind was butterfly turtle, then we in the same goddamn boat. This was Henodus and he was an odd lil rascal. He may look quite like a lil turt-turt, but there were some anatomical differences as well yo. Turtles got limbs situated inside their ribcage where this rascal had normally positioned limbs (not that you can tell cuz of his funky lil shell).

Even with his "normal" limbs doe, they were apparently pretty weak (doesnt even lift) and suggested lil Heno spent little to no time on land. The water called to lil Heno and he answered. Although Henodus is a placodont (marine reptiles usually not very large) he seems to be an exception cuz he lived more in brackish (salty-fresh water) or fre$hwater lagoons rather than tha big open sea. 

Anyways, Henodus lived in the waters of the Late Triassic. Being a placodont, he usually never got bigga than a meter long (tree feet). Besides that strange lil rascal on his back tho, another funfact characteristic was that he only had 2 teeth! One on each side and a beak in da middle. 

Not much tops da Henodus in terms of strange water dinosaurs. He was a swimming bloq if yu aks me.