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For just a reminder of how beautiful the Holotype skull of Gastonia burgei is. Best Polacanthid skull so far on planet. Yhis guy was a head pounder like a dinocephalian with pterygoid processes forming a shock absorber at front of braincase. I'm looking at you!

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2023-03-25

Dino Fact!

Epidexipteryx (Display Feather) is a scansoriopterygid from Middle to Late Jurassic Beijing! The holotype specimen (IVPP V 15471) was discovered with well-preserved traces of four elongated feathers on its tail! These feathers are the oldest - (1/2)

Art by casielles!

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2023-03-24

Rolling on site personnel. Starting with this boi in a standard hi-sec uniform. With a color alt, because why not?

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2023-01-25

a Eudromaeosaurian of questionable affinity. Originally thought to be a Velociraptorine, a reexamination of the holotype kept it within the true raptors, however being a separate genus outside any other current groups within Eudromaeosauria.

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2023-01-21

My last of 2022: holotype skull of Daspletosaurus wilsoni, done as a Christmas gift for our good friend . ~6x4", watercolor and gouche, ~4 hours.

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2023-01-01

Since there is no complete Dilophosaurus skull I'm using reference from incomplete skulls to fill in the blanks, with the holotype as a base. Even so, there's a lot of puzzling involved. There's still a lot more to detail and tweak to make sure it's as accurate as it can be.

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2022-10-31

Aight, so, one of the things I'll use this page for is to post about side projects not imbued with horni energy. Starting with a plan currently called starring this funky space boio.

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2022-10-26

-its holotype and paratype fossils consisted of four teeth (an adult tooth and three juvenile teeth), unlike Troodon with just a single tooth! Plus the most recent studies concluded that Pectinodon is valid, so there may be hope for this genus! (3/3)

Art by Christopher DiPiazza!

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2022-09-21

Low poly Rhinconichthys. The skull is largely based off the holotype of R. purgatoriensis as described in Schumacher et al. (2016), with some opercular elements reconstructed using images of a privately owned Rhinconichthys-like pachycormid specimen from the Vallecillo quarry.

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2022-09-09

Dino Fact!

Bambiraptor (Bambi Thief) is a dromaeosaurid from Late Cretaceous North America! It was named after the famous Disney character due to how tiny it was, the holotype specimen in particular was a juvenile that was less than a meter long! Some- (1/2)

Art by @/Fajmanjay!

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2022-09-07

First image is a fantastic illustration by the very talented artist . A look into the largest known ornithomimid, Gallimimus bullatus. The remains of this famous dinosaur were first found between the years 1963 and 1965. The holotype specimen IGM 100/11, was named in

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2022-07-03

Holotype osteoderms from Mymoorapelta, E, F.. cervical ring lateral spine, M, shoulder spine, DD, EE, FF caudosacral plates. Rest of osteoderms from Gargoyleosaurus. Full fig of Mymoorapelta holotype shoulder spine and caudalosacral plates. Osteoderms define sp.

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2022-07-02

June 12, 1870, birthday of German paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach. Famous for the discovery of the holotype of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus
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🖌 https://t.co/lwAEnPuCZJ

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2022-06-12

3 rex is solid lmao. People forgot that Dread (front most) isn't as big as people think. Granted the holotype isn't mature yet so.

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2022-05-31

- remains, but based on rough estimates, it could've gotten as large as 7-8 meters in length! Based on its location and the damage found on the bones, the holotype specimen might've been swept out to sea, where it was fed upon by aquatic scavengers! (2/2)

Art by Joschua Knüppe!

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2022-05-27

The holotype specimen has been estimated to have had a total body length of 4.3 meters, just over half the length of Piscogavialis with which it shared its environment with. However despite being larger, Piscogavialis was specialised in small prey, leaving Sacaco a generalist.

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2022-05-12

The genus name translates to "dragon of death", and the species name is derived from the Amaru, a serpentine creature in Quechua mythology (WE LOVE TO SEE IT). The holotype has an estimated wingspan of 7 meters; the bigger humerus came from a ~9 meter individual

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2022-04-12

New azhdarchid alert!!! The "Padrillo pterosaur", previously known from just a big humerus, has a name now: Thanatosdrakon amaru. Here's the holotype specimen, from the upper Coniacian-lower Santonian Plottier Formation of western Argentina

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2022-04-12

it IS 90% faithful, however to the wrong skull.
ML based on the holotype reconstruct with elements of Carcharodontosaurus used to fill in the bits (3rd is carch, see the relation?) The 4th image is the 'new' giga, giving us a taller and less arrow-shaped skull jwd giga possesses.

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2022-03-13