Feeling a bit better
Have a sketch of this weird Anteosaurus and Jonkeria doing a tango

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Time for Synapsid week !!!!!

First entry is Anteosaurus, as it is that one sketch that you decide to not finish

Better ones will come out in the next few days :]



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I just realized I don’t have any non-neotherapsid synapsids in my library of illustrations for licensing, so in my warmup time today I started working in a reconstruction of one of my fav dinocephalians: the huge Anteosaurus. Here in a speculative display pose

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A recent study on the brain anatomy of Anteosaurus suggests that it was an agile terrestrial predator based on the size of the floccular lobe and semicircular canals. Art by MALvit.
https://t.co/1nYzfNmKKx

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"Even though Anteosaurus lived 200-million years before the famous dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex, Anteosaurus was definitely not a ‘primitive’ creature, and was nothing short of a mighty prehistoric killing machine." - Dr Julien Benoit


https://t.co/DyumLC1Vt6

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Results from the
Anteosaurus (for ), Arctodus (for Levi), Homalocephalus and a Mari Lwyd (for )

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Working on a new profile pic. It’s an Anteosaurus because of course it is.

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Inktober days 21-24
Treasure: Armadillosuchus
Ghost: Chindesaurus
Ancient: Chiniquodon and Anteosaurus fossil
Dizzy: Pachycephalosaurus

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Anteosaurus had a huge, powerful jaw & teeth which it used to drag prey into water, drowning the victim.

(Credit: Robert Bakkers)

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アンテオサウルス(Anteosaurus abelli)。

ペルム紀後期に生息した大型の単弓類。
当時の最大の捕食者だった、このアンテオサウルスを含む
肉食ディノケファルス類の衰退により、より強力な
ゴルゴノプス類が台頭してくる事になる。

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