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Day 4 - Longisquama
~ A small reptile from the Mid or Late Triassic, Longisquama is characterized by long feather-like filaments on its back. These were most likely for sexual display or just something common with the species.
#paleoart
Another wonder from the Lower #Triassic, when the earth was still recovering from the great mortality. #Hupehsuchus was a marine reptile with an armor of osteoderms on the upper part of its back, something very rare in marine reptiles.
@j_stocky Okay so. I CLEARLY like marine reptiles from the Triassic, like the moonlight Cymbospondylus youngorum...I also CLEARLY am a pliosaur fan...because Sachica and Rhom (LOVE early Jurassic marine demons heehee) OH YEAH MICROCLEIDUS. Creepy little shit.
If I had a nickle for every time South America (aka the best continent ever) had a giant, quadrupedal, apex predator crocodile, then I'd have two nickles, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
First Triassic, then Eocene.
(art by @ChrisDPiazza and @HodariNundu)
Silesaurus opolensis was a herbivorous osauriform from the Late Triassic, around 230 million years ago.
(Credit Petrified Forest)
Lystrosaurus. Late Permian–Early Triassic, 255–250 million years. Herbiverous Dicynodont (two tusks). Art by Maurice Wilson. #cigarettecard #MauriceWilson #Lystrosaurus #dinosaur
It’s #FossilFriday and here is a WIP I’m working on of a Proterosuchus which just captured a young Lystrosaurus at an Early Triassic, South African river bank. Will it consume it in the water or on land? Many details to be refined but it is getting there. #paleoart #sciart
For a short time, during the earliest Triassic, some parts of the world belonged to the #therocephalians. Here for #FossilFriday I have reconstructed the large-sized Moschorhinus. It is defending its recent kill, a Lystrosaurus, from a group of Tetracynodon #paleoart #sciart
More #Pterosaurs. My slightly revised version of Eudimorphodon ranzii, a basal pterosaur from the Late Triassic, Zorzino Fm 🇮🇹 #paleoart
Also for #FossilFriday, here is Asilisaurus kongwe, a silesaurid dinosauriform from the Mnda Beds, Triassic, Tanzania #paleoart
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