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Some speculative sketches of the two protopyknosians, Kranosaura and Triopticus. There's a lot of wiggle room with imagining how animals known only from their domes may have looked, so naturally I went for the boring-est, playing-it-safe-est interpretation (someone has to).
Art train I guess? No clue if there's meant to be a theme but here's some picks.
Tagging @TheWoodParable @FabioAleRomero @udurawane @Philoceratops https://t.co/arftQAIpHq
Tiarajudens speculatively reconstructed with bony flanges on its jaws to match its enormous 'fangs', based on similar flanges in other 'sabre tooths', including herbivores. Only pieces from the back of its lower jaw are known, so hey, maybe...
20 minute sketches from tonight's flocking together on #paleostream, featuring Halszkaraptor, Carnotaurus, #Saivodus, and Simolestes
Quick sketches from tonight's Flocking Together on #Paleostream, Mimetaster, maximum-Ozimek and Ixalerpeton
A portrait of the (especially) bizarre Triassic dicynodont Rechnisaurus, attempting to capture all its oddities—the crest, the pits on top of the snout, and caniniform processes that cover the otherwise sizeable tusks. Also a contribution to #DicynodontRainbow
A little bit of #speczoo, an obligate-biped diplodocid (Bipedocus?) with dextrous, grabby-thumbs inspired by the discussions on this SV-POW! article https://t.co/dhsPo4DKed #SpecEvo
Onto allodaposuchids for #Croctober #Inktober Day 27, another European clade of crocs very close to the modern ones. Most would have looked a lot like them too...but then there's Lohuecosuchus megadontos, which had such comically large teeth it looks like a croc caricature.
Day 21 of #Croctober #Inktober is Sarcosuchus, the famed giant 'SuperCroc'. Sarcosuchus was a pholidosaurid, a lineage of freshwater & marine predators. Sarcosuchus was one of the former, & at 8-9 m long or so, could easily have preyed upon large dinosaurs.
Day 18 of #Croctober #Inktober is Kaprosuchus, the infamous 'BoarCroc'. This one's not quite as leggy as it's usual depiction, but with a skull and fangs like that it's always going to be a gnarly animal.