(3/6) A wide range of species exists on the high, undiscovered plateau, including not just true but also synapsids and pterosaurs - those creatures which the old movies always considered interchangeable with true dinosaurs.

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Is a hashtag?
Probably not, but it should be.
Anyway, I made a thing...

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It's the one time I haven't missed
I like painting animals, both extant and extinct, with a focus on synapsids (mammals and our relatives)

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This is a old race concept I've been working on for a fantasy setting. Nidyllo are large synapsids seen all over the lands. Kind and powerful they make loyal friends and dangerous enemies. Expect a Homebrew thing about them sometime.

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synapsids... or something

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Morning warmup speedpaint/sketch. Suminia, one of my favorite therapsids. Suminia was a small arboreal anomodontian therapsid (so distantly related to us mammals) that lived during the Late Permian in Europe

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Results from the
Prognathodon, Losillasaurus, Palaeoloxodon, Gryposuchus...

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Results from the
Estemmenosuchus, Lystrosaurus, Secodontosaurus and Megawhaitsia.
We decided to only do synapsids today, but everyone was just suggesting Permian/Triassic stuff. Shame!

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Out of all Permian synapsids I think Cotylorhynchus is one of my favourites. I mean just look how thick thay are! I want to pat the big tummy 😍 and this his is the first time i draw one and now I want more!

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Time for We like to think of tooth replacement as a tidy process. But here are 4 cross sections of jaws that show chunks of older teeth that were left behind in the bone! Happens a lot in animals that continually replace their teeth, like these extinct synapsids.

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I just realized I have a almost always depicted dinocephalian therapsids in combat or attacking some other animal! 🤔 That is not that usual for me

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You have traveled back in time to Late Permian South Africa and all of the sudden you run into this pair of Moschops capensis head butting! What a sight that must have been! Moschops was a dinocephalian therapsid, this a very distant relative of ours

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Sketch portrait. Secodontosaurus, the lesser known, long-snouted relative of Dimetrodon (which usually gets all the attention). I’m not super happy with it but I don’t have more time today to keep tweaking it. This animal has a weird skull.

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The herbivore apinocephalus was the largest of all non-mammal synapsids, at 4 metres in length & 2,000 kg.

(Credit: WillemSvdMerwe)

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Morning warmup sketch for I was thinking of this scene where a Pristerognathus (therocephalian) chases a Diictodon (dicynodont) that was caught too far out of its burrow. Permian (Capitanian) of South Africa.

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Only three groups of Synapsids/therapsids survived the end-Permian mass extinction event into the Early Triassic: dicynodonts (top), therocephalians (center), and cynodonts (bottom). Only the latter (our relatives) survived into the Jurassic.

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