File talk:Mesenosaurus romeri Naturalis.JPG

Ok, this is the second time I've had to do this for Mesenosaurus, but can someone check where the picture has come from? This isn't Mesenosaurus. Firstly, you can see the lable of the specimen saying it is actually a prehistoric crocodile. Secondly, I've seen most of the Mesenosaurus specimens at the Palaeontological Institute in Moscow, and also Robert Reisz's paper on it. And it does not look like that. The hindlimbs are longer, the body is more gracile, the skull is much smaller in comparison to the body, is flatter and has a more pointed snout (as you can see from the reference below). Neil Brocklehurst Museum Für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany

Reisz. R. R. and Berman, D. S. The skull of Mesenosaurus romeri, a small varanopseid (Synapsida: Eupelycosauria) from the Upper Permian of the Mezen River Basin, Northern Russia. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 70: 113-132.