Zygorhiza, Eocene Whale Skull Carnataurus Conchoraptor was a small dinosaur

Conchoraptor was a small dinosaur

The most distinctive feature is their large skull

fleshy sail on its back

(This hypothesis is partly based on analogy with aboriginal harpoons that had tethered foreshafts Cotter 1937)

Zygorhiza, Eocene Whale Skull Carnataurus Conchoraptor was a small dinosaurZygorhiza ("Yoke Root") is an extinct genus of basilosaurid early whale known from the Late Eocene, 3834 MYA of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, United States. Zygorhiza kochii is the state fossil of Mississippi. The mounted specimen in the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson is commonly referred to as "Ziggy". Like other dorundontines, Zygorhiza had a body similar to modern cetaceans with flipper like forelimbs, rudimentary hind