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A swampy shore with a wide shore, rudely occupied by a group of croaking Tiktaalik. A couple of placoderms shift through the muck like carp. looks incredibly humid inside.
Found this figure in a paper about the first evidence of claspers in placoderms
The Devonian must have been a wild time
Bianchengichthys micros, a new maxillate placoderm from southern China described by @ZhuEarlyFishLab. It, along with a few other placoderms, suggests that the origin of all eugnathostomes might be from Vietnam and southern China.
Reconstruction by Qiuyang Zheng.
06. Describe Your Character Creation Process
I'll have a list of character traits / reference images that I'll try to make sure are reflected. E.g Gummie was sarcastic and abrasive so I tried to get that across meanwhile for Perfect I had a bunch of ref images of placoderms.
So Mawframe huh? Placoderms fish got some cool teeth so why not draw my excal, Saint with some of em???
@yoofilos Always thought the Skin-Fang ones were Placoderms.
I’ve missed the last couple of #SundayFishSketch challenges. I was still short on time really didn’t want to miss a 3rd; especially when the brief was #Placoderms
Results from the first #FossilFishWeek #paleostream!
Dunkleosteus, Hyneria, Saurodon and Hensodon!
#paleoart #fish #sketches #sciart #placoderms #scicomm #cretaceous #pycnodonts
#FossilFishWeek offers today:
Qarmoutus, Protosphyraena, Piranhamesodon and Stensioella.
#paleoart #fish #catfish #placoderms #sketches #paleostream
Speculative parasitism in prehistory:
- Parasitic radiodontids
- Parasitic trilobites
- Cleaning symbiosis in placoderms
- Condonts infected with tapeworm larvae
#SciArt
https://t.co/dZP27pb68C
PLACODERMS ARE BETTER THAN YOU
here is why..
In humans if our spine fuses its hella pathological, and can be completely debilitating
In #Dunkleosteus their back bones fuse as part of their physiology.
Its just a part of growing up dunk.
Paper: https://t.co/kp1a1oXfL1
@CoryTregoErdner Yeah the gnathal plates in placoderms are derived from teeth that grow outwards in in a ring instead of in rows
They also have the same structure as their scales proving that teeth evolved from scales
Highlights from the placoderm #paleostream
Stensioella, Bungartius, Heterosteus and Bolivosteus
#paleoart #sciart #placoderms #fish #animals #art #sketch
Its been a while, but here the results from the #paleostream!
Manidens, Iberodactylus (new taxon), Prolibytherium and Titanichthys, giving birth.
#paleoart #sciart #fossilfriday #art #dinosaurus #animals #pterosaurs #placoderms
Incidentally, cleaner wrasse was my inspiration for this speculative zoology piece on "Cleaner Placoderms" https://t.co/OcIS9SYZJV about how some ecological interactions we see today might have also existed in the ancient past