Sky Jung Doesn't Really Want To Be Here.

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PhD student at the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences. I like fish(ing). Occasional artist. Trying to figure out shrimp and the Delta and failing miserably. Only here to talk to the cool people that left the Other Place. Maybe I'll post regularly.

Photograph of newly-prepped, nearly-complete Protosphyraena hurleyi skull. Photo credit: Australian Age of Dinosaurs

throw this into the sun i guess

Grainy photograph of "Australopachycormus" (Protosphyraena) hurleyi. Photo credit: Ken Hurley.

Holotype and referred material of Protosphyraena hurleyi as figured in Kear, 2007.

Schematic cranial reconstructions of Protosphyraena ferox, P. hurleyi, and P. sp. from Russia adapted from Kanarkina 2026b.

Rostral fragment of Protosphyraena ferox as figured by Kanarkina, 20206b.

Partial rostrum and lower jaw of Protosphyraena hurleyi as figured in Kear, 2007.

Life reconstruction of a North American Protosphyraena sp. based on FHSM VP-81.

Cranial reconstruction of Protosphyraena hurleyi (Kear, 2007) with circumorbital series removed to show detail of hyopalatine series.

Cranial reconstruction of Protosphyraena hurleyi (Kear, 2007) with dermal pectoral girdle elements included. Scaled to holotype and largest referred specimen.