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What a Nose!

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Eurhinosaurus's nose is not a defect, or a feature resulting from too short of a jaw (all the teeth are there, numerous as they are, plentiful in their tininess). Instead, like the swordfish (a tuna-like marlin relative), or the sawfish (a relative of sharks), the snout was greatly elongated, and it may have served a sensory rather than predatory function. Like other parvipelvian ichthyosaurs, the orbits are ridiculously huge and round, the snout shallow and pointy, and it was probably a piscivore. A relatively small inner aperture of the scleral ring implies the eyes were adapted to daylight, and thus the animal was probably a near-surface, diurnal predator. It lived during the Early Jurassic of western Europe, from England to Switzerland.

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Turns out the jaw was a bit wrong, and the mandibular symphysis too long, so this has been fixed, as well as adding in a dorsal profile to the palate in the skull's dorsal (top) view, with shading to pull focus towards the external skull bones.
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Beautifully done :)