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Thinking.. maybe therapsid aliens (scifi settings orcs mayhaps)

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2021-02-19

Here's a crappy little practice doodle of a sleepy, therapsid-adjacent guy I did as a way of testing the plug-into-the-phone function of my tablet.

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2021-02-19

Let sleeping Gorgonops lie (unless you wanna get chomped). I’ve been meaning to draw more of these Permian therapsids and today seemed like a good a time as any.

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2020-12-19

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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2020-11-24

Sphenacodon

A 3 meter long pelycosaur with a low bony crest running along its back, they where apex predators until therapsids like gorgonops replaced them

ALT: sphenacodon was actually discovered before dimetrodon, but didn't get much attention by paleontologists at the time

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2020-09-27

Moschops was a therapsid that lived before the dinosaurs did. They also are closer to mammals like us than to the dinosaurs that would appear later!

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2020-06-10

Morning sketch. Portrait of Tetraceratops insignis, a small basal sphenacodontian synapsid (probably close to therapsids) from Early Permian North America. A distant relative to all of us mammals.

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2020-06-01

therapsid hunks

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2020-05-28

Dinosaur paleontologists have tons of options for simple icons of their taxa to use in talks, etc. I figured it's time us therapsid enthusiasts had something nice to use!
DM me to get the non-watermarked versions for $1. I'm happy to alter colors or add taxa if requested!

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2020-05-23

Just finished the first season of Star Trek and unexpectedly my favorite character is Try imagining him as a permian therapsid and you might like him more.

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2020-04-22

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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2020-04-03

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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2020-04-02

Work in progress. The large gorgonopsian Rubidgea, foraging along a river bank. Late Permian of South Africa. I had the idea for this illustration this morning and I had to start working on it, hopefully I’ll finish it some time in the future

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2020-02-08

they're extinct, but gorgonopsians!! they're a subgroup of therapsids that were called "mammal-like reptiles" for their mixture of mammalian & reptilian feature. their sizes ranged anywhere from small dog to bear-sized

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2020-01-15

Anyway, back to Spindler's paper. They provide a new reconstruction of the smushed skull, calling into question a number of the characters previously used to support the therapsid affinity. They decide its a pelycosaur, but more primitive than I found, outside sphenacodontids

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2020-01-12

Drawing underrated prehistoric animals 7/?: Lycaenops, a carnivorous therapsid from the mid to late Permian period. People tend to draw them hunting prey, so I thought it would be nice to draw a Lycaenops mom moving one of her babies to a safer location, for a change.

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2019-12-01

Morning warmup sketch. A pair of Estemmenosuchus bulls fighting. Estemmenosuchus is a large, middle Permian therapsid genus characterized by having odd antler-like horns and bumps on its skull. This was another taxon sugggested by my IG followers

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2019-07-25