Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸さんのイラストまとめ

Just past the unusually blunt, peg-like teeth, the jaws curve away from each other. One fossil (the "Painten Pelican") suggests a rounded structure may have covered this gap. 2 bony crests on the head may have been joined & extended in life by soft tissue, as shown. #paleoart

1st #pterosaur of 2019!!! Cycnorhamphus, a bizarre Late Jurassic genus from France & Germany. During this time a lot of Europe was broken into subtropical archipelagos, and Cycnorhamphus may have waded for shellfish or foraged for pinecones with its bizarre jaws. #paleoart

Line drawing of the Jurassic #pterosaur Cycnorhamphus. I really like how this is turning out so far, I forgot how much fun the textures of pterosaurs can be once you get past the nightmare of proportions & posing. #paleoart #paleontology #sciart #scientificillustration

The integument & length of the tusks are speculative, & for the coloration I looked at some living animals and ended up way too close to them (not gonna say which though, lol). I like the unintentional metallic flavor it's got though #paleoart #Lisowicia #paleontology #sciart

@g0diear16 Thank you very much! I've actually done a couple, if you haven't seen them yet. Pachyrhinosaurus (https://t.co/qW6RjaK2fB) and Triceratops (https://t.co/uf1r79Dl8Y)

@hypo_lucas Yes, but there would be some indication in the skeleton. Compare the clearly visible "claw" on a sea turtle flipper (pic via CalPhotos) to the reduced tips of the digits of Eretmorhipis (from the paper I cited)

The pupils of living cephalopods can range from circles, to rectangles, to more complex "W" shapes. Here, I've gone with a totally speculative "lute" shape, just for kicks. Happy #FossilFriday everybody! Have a great weekend #paleoart #Nipponites #ammonite #cephalopod #sciart

Line drawing of that most labyrinthian of ammonites, the Cretaceous Nipponites. I tried to go for a unique appearance for the soft tissue, and ended up with this vaguely octopus-looking, stalk-eyed form that's doing...something with its tentacles. #paleoart #sciart #paleontology

I was somewhat inspired by living snakes for the tail & head, as I thought it might be appropriate for such a formidable animal to have some kind of warning coloration. Stegosaurs, whatever their neck length, were not to be trifled with.

The neck is composed of an astonishing 17 vertebrae, surpassing most sauropods! It was thus probably somewhat flexible, & arose either through sexual selection or exploiting some ecological niche (upper mid-level browsing?) #miragaia #stegosaurs #ThagomizerThursday