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Good day for theropods! Published today are the full description of Eotyrannus by @TetZoo and Andrea Cau, and a new short-armed carcharodontosaurid, Meraxes gigas, authored by Juan Canale et al.!
A comparison of spinosauridae, a group of fish-eating theropods that flourished during the Cretaceous Period.
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Terrores del Pántano
#dinosaurs #dinosaurday #Paleoart #Spinosauride #Ichtyovenator
@DustinGrowick im a huge fan of all dromaeosauridae but my top two would be the iconic Velociraptor, or the underrated Microraptor!!!
Herbivores will rarely pass up an opportunity for an easy protein snack. Such as this hadrosaurid Gobihadros mongoliensis taking the chick of an early waterfowl from it's nest on the banks of a Late Cretaceous river.
All those epoccipitals were fake teeth I'm telling you. They were mimicking not just exaggerated stares, but also monstrous open mouths ready to gobble their enemies up. Tyrannosaurids had nightmares about these. :B
Dino Fact!
Chindesaurus (Chinde Lizard) is a herrerasaurid(?) from Late Triassic North America! Its taxonomy is rather hard to pinpoint! It's mainly been considered a herrerasaurid, but some theorize that it was really a basal theropod, which - (1/2)
Art by @/Paleoartologist!
Miragaia was a stegosaurid from Portugal. It reached around 6 meters long and had an unusually long neck.
Design by @GrecoWestermann
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#miragaia #dinosaur
Here's an illustration I did of a Daspletosaurus yesterday. #drawing #illustration #lightwishmarker #sharpie #dinosaur #daspletosaurus #tyrannosaur #cretaceous #montana #usa #ink #america #theropod #tyrannosauridae #prehistoric #predator #hunter #marker
Dino Fact!
Herrerasaurus (Herrera’s Lizard) is a herrerasaurid from Late Triassic Argentina! It's one of the earliest known dinosaurs to date! Its taxonomy has been a heavily debated topic for years; most at least agree that it's some kind - (1/2)
Art by @/jackthevulture!
#FossilFriday Guemesia ochoai is the first definitive abelisaurid theropod from Northwestern Argentina. The genus name honours General Martin Miguel de Güemes who defended northwestern Argentina during the War of Independence. He died #OTD, 1821
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An ink drawing on toned paper of Helushka preening his mate, Barda.
#tyrannosaurus #tyrannosaurid #tyrannosaurusrex #tyrannosaur #theropod #dinosaur #paleoart #paleontology #paleobiology #art #sketch #doodle #drawing #traditionalart #copicmarkers #inks #inkdrawing #tonedpaper
NEW SPINOSAURID DISCOVERY!!! As soon as I heard the news I quickly sketched a life reconstruction ASAP!
Congrats to @Vectivenator et al., (2022) for the release of the paper!!!
#SciArt
New theropod from North Africa by Salem et al. "First definitive record of Abelisauridae (Theropoda: Ceratosauria) from the #Cretaceous Bahariya Formation, Bahariya Oasis, Western #Desert of #Egypt" in https://t.co/aokzS2rWQL
#Paleontology #Africa #Science
Dino Fact!
Crichtonsaurus (Crichton’s Lizard) is an ankylosaurid from Late Cretaceous China! Its name is in honor of Michael Crichton, the author of the original Jurassic Park novel and its sequel The Lost World, which spawned the infamous movie- (1/2)
Art by Green-Mamba!
A huge basilosaurid off the coast of late Eocene Peru, harassed for thier tuna
Dino Fact!
Saichania (Beautiful One) is an ankylosaurid from Late Cretaceous Mongolia! Its name is a reference to its first discovered fossils, which consists of the front half of its body, and how well-preserved they are! It's also noted to - (1/2)
Art by Joschua Knüppe!
Dino Fact!
Ankylosaurus (Fused Lizard) is an ankylosaurid from Late Cretaceous North America! As the most famous of the ankylosaurs, it's also very well-known for their family's most defining trait, the tail club! It's mainly composed of two - (1/2)
Art by Joschua Knüppe!