You imagine its huge tail as leaf camoflage, eh? Interesting take.

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I just love your drepanosaurs (or simiosaurs). Great work!

I was thinking Hypuronector might have been aquatic (or semi-aquatic), because it seems to be much less adapted for arboreal life than its ofter relatives.

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Real nice, pretty cool looking.

Very funky. I like how you made the tail an "immitation leaf" and not the "sculling organ" envisioned by the original authors. Right or no, this looks more on the line of plausible than the improbable swimmer when it was published!

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Weird critter... looks like a photograph!

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Cool! I love simiosaurs.

It depends on what you mean. Just because a reptile has a deep tail doesnt mean it's aquatic.

Aquatic tails, like those of crocodiles and sea-reptiles are also wide and muscular at the base, and generally fairly flexible.

Many reptiles have flat or deep tails that are comparatively weak and stiff, and are simply used for camouflage. This was the case with Hypruronector, it's tail-bones are thin and delicate, and relatively inflexible. This would make it a very poor swimming organ.

Also, it's lesser adaptations to climbing may simply indicate a sedentary lifestyle. Sloths have comparatively puny muscles today, and no gripping digits, but spend almost their whole life in the trees. Their ancestors however were massively muscled and lived on the ground somewhat like dinosaurs. Similarly, a lizard with energetic climning skills, like a monitor, is far more muscular than a sedentary gecko.

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It looks like a mini iguanadon with a really big tail. Neato.

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