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Therocephalians are another group of therapsids that made it into the Triassic. They were probably distributed throughout Pangea during the Early Triassic. One genus (Moschorhinus) is believed to have survived the Permian extinction

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2019-02-23

For I am opening a thread about Early Triassic tetrapod faunal assemblages. After the Permian extinction, terrestrial faunal assemblages were depauperate and most were very similar in composition. Temnospondyls were quick to diversify

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2019-02-22

For a short time, during the earliest Triassic, some parts of the world belonged to the Here for I have reconstructed the large-sized Moschorhinus. It is defending its recent kill, a Lystrosaurus, from a group of Tetracynodon

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2019-02-09

Postosuchus kirkpatricki was a crocodilian relative that measure 5 metres long & lived in North America during the Late Triassic.

(Credit: Victor Leshyk)

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2019-01-24

R is for rhynchosaur.

Rhynchosaur was a reptilian parrot beaked pig from the Triassic that ate mainly tubers and roots. (not literally a pig, but a fat lizard none the less)Illustration for extinct series.

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2019-01-23

Spread of what the section about the formations (the bulk of the book ) will look like. Like I said in my previous tweet, this one is the middle Sakamena Fm of Madagascar. this is what you’d be collecting if you worked during the Early Triassic

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2019-01-17

A preview of one of the plates of my in-prep book “Journey To The Mesozoic vol. I”. This is a plate of the Middle Sakamena Formation of Madagascar (Early Triassic) and a closer view to the procolophonid parareptile Lasasaurus

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2019-01-17

Quick triassic landscape

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2019-01-08

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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2018-12-12

not-#dinovember day 25: Lystrosaurus! Even Triassic mammal relatives get itchy sometimes

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2018-11-26

As expected I couldn’t stop thinking about the newly described GIANT dicynodont Lisowicia, and started sketching. I imagined a couple of them on an tranquil Triassic afternoon surrounded by coelophysioid dinosaurs and probably a large temnospondyl

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2018-11-23

WIP, still early stages of this illustration where I want to show a detailed process of reconstructing cynodont, in this case the large sized Trucidocynodon from the Triassic of Brazil. Finished illustration in my in-prep book. Many details still to fix

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2018-11-05

Tanystropheus was a 6-metre-long reptile from the Middle Triassic. Its neck was longer than its body & tail combined!

(Credit: Mark Witton)

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2018-10-14

tumblr comm for bird-butt and triassicduck (my awesome furry mutuals)!!! i loved drawing these 2 lovebirds.

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2018-09-29

A fast fact for today's from our fakulty member Mike Lowery: Was the Triassic period the original Seattle?? ————————————————————————I’ve been obsessed with this lately. It’s called the Carnian Pluvial Event and folks it rained for TWO MILLION YEARS.

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2018-09-22

Megalancosaurus was a chameleon-like reptile from the Late Triassic. It grew to 25 cm long.

(Credit: deviantart/rolandi)

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2018-09-06

CT-scan of procolophonid reveals previously unknown anatomical details of these small lizard-like Triassic reptiles https://t.co/JwoArGjCUd

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2018-08-29

Marasuchus lilloensis was a small dinosauriform of Late Triassic Argentina (Chañares Formation) not a dinosaur. The hypothetical crest I used in this reconstruction is meant to be made of some sort of quill-like structures homologous to dinosaur filaments

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2018-08-18