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Strange reconstruction of Bawitius.

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2021-05-12

Ahh, I just found the cutest extinct tetraodontiform art! This is Protobalistum imperiale.

https://t.co/ebPnUQFemc

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2021-04-25

Final reconstruction of Homalacanthus concinnus. Big thank you to for providing nearly all the information and consulting about this early filter feeding acanthodian. Both model variants are 1:1 and about 11" long.

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2021-04-08

my drawings for and except now its more cleaned up and colored :3
( still on the wrong account tho :0 )

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2021-02-22

Results from the third

Triobus, Propristis, Promyliobatis and Cervifurca

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2021-02-22

For my last post for I decided to put all my drawings in one convenient post!
In order: Tiktaalik, Mawsonia, Rhizodus and Xiphactinus

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2021-02-22

They probably went undetected for so long since they had adapted to live in the deep sea, which is a poorly represented environment in the fossil record. It's a similar situation to the gap between Cretaceous and modern coelacanths. Art by .

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2021-02-22

Time for more artist shout-outs!
because he's knocking FossilFishWeek out of the park!

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2021-02-22

I just happened to be working on some fish during
Here's a sneek peek of a larger piece I'm working on.
Axelrodichthys, although the ones from the Kem Kem Group were previously known as Mawsonia.

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2021-02-22

An other crazy week means that I've pretty much missed all of so I'm going to dive in at the last minute with a bumper contribution.

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2021-02-21

as one last contribution I offer a collection of the biggest fish megafauna that extend from the Late Siluria to the Early Permian comprising a time period of around 150 million years which fishes diversified and became extinct to be replaced by new waves.

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2021-02-21

Alright, last piece of ended up being Amphistium!

From the previous, I touched up the colors, patterns and moved the eyeball upwards. I really loved the linework of the sketch from the get go.

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2021-02-21

Unkle Dunkle got a face lift after last night’s

I really wasn’t happy with my colors and pose, so I decided to redo the character today.

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2021-02-21

Idk if it's still but a paleoartist who I think doesn't get nearly the props he deserves is Brian Choo. An amazing illustrator specializing in (but certainly not limited to) of Paleozoic fishes

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2021-02-20

Rhegmaspis xiphoidea for
Trying to find a good desc on a galeaspid genus is such a pain in the ass, glad I found this fella in novataxa.

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2021-02-20

Here are all the prehistoric fish I drew for Species shown are Lepomis Kansasensis, sabertooth salmon, and Esox kronneri.

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2021-02-20