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Ischigualastia jenseni was a type of dicynodont from the Jurassic. They were 3.5m long.

(Credit: Satoshi Kawasaki)

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2019-08-20

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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2019-08-09

New blog post: Part 1 of a series on the science of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs and associated sculptures, featuring new produced for . This post: dicynodonts -> plesiosaurs.

https://t.co/eKKqjLlE9S

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2019-05-01

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

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

Today I bring you an assortment of Triassic dicynodonts: Dinodontosaurus, Lystrosaurus, Angonisaurus, Ischigualastia, Myosaurus and Kombusia. All these and many more will appear in my book. Dicynodonts are distantly related to us mammals.

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2018-05-31

WIP Its so here is an indeterminate Sinokannemeyeriine dicynodont from the Lipovskaya Fm. Not a mammal nor a cynodont but a distant relative therapsid from Early Triassic (Olenekian) Russia. One of the approx. 20 spp that will appear in my book

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2018-01-09