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The pseudosuchians depicted

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2022-11-02

Would make sense with the rest of the island already being rich in Triassic and Permian fauna, especially with Pseudosuchians.

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2022-07-04

Quick concept sketch of Ornithosuchus woodwardi (a croc-line archosaur NOT a dinosaur) in alert pose. People who like classical-looking dinosaurs really have to look at Triassic pseudosuchians (croc-line archosaurs)

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2022-01-10

Late night entry here. More doodles! Enjoy!
Again using prompt list. :)

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2021-12-29

Depends on what you mean by crocodile. Crocodiles evolved after dinosaurs died out, when the mammals started to take over.

If you mean their extinct relatives & forerunners like Kaprosuchus, Simosuchus, or older stuff like Postosuchus or Aetosaur, the term would be Pseudosuchian

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2021-04-03

Newest piece of the pseudosuchian, overpowering the early dinosaur, 🐊🦖 Done in watercolors.

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2020-12-07

Results from the
Poposaurus, Crassigyrinius, Saurosuchus and Meganalia/Varanus priscus.

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2020-11-08

Today’s is Poposaurus gracilis Mehl 1915 from the Upper Triassic of the western US. Poposaurus has a remarkably similar body plan to dinosaurs, yet has hallmarks of all pseudosuchians. We know almost the full anatomy, minus parts of the skull

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2020-10-20

Today’s is Nundasuchus songeaensis Nesbitt et al. 2014 a pseudosuchian from the Manda Beds of Tanzania. The phylogenetic position is poorly constrained, but largely because it lacks characters of the ‘classic’ pseudosuchian clades

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2020-10-16

And so I begin developing this sketch of the large, Triassic European pseudosuchian Batrachotomus. I went with the sketch on the right. On the left you can see the very early stages of working in this illustration.

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2020-05-07

For today a very quick, rough sketch of Batrachotomus, a very large carnivorous pseudosuchian from the Middle Triassic of Germany Now I have to go back to work on Fish 😒

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2020-03-25

I worked on one of the Effigia sketches (left) I drew a couple of weeks ago, and added here to a plate also depicting Qianosuchus (sketch, top right), a basal poposauroid, and the foot of Poposaurus (bottom right). These are not dinosaurs but

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2020-03-01

Lotosaurus, another oddity of the Triassic. A toothless, beaked, herbivorous and sail-backed Poposauroid pseudosuchian (the croc-line archosaurs) that lived during the Middle Triassic of China. There will be text over the upper side of the image

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2019-12-01

Pseudosuchians but you get the idea

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2019-11-09

Beaks have appeared separately numerous times in tetrapod evolution. I have depicted 5 examples here: dicynodonts (top left), pantestudines (center), rhynchosaurs (top right), shuvosaurid pseudosuchians (bottom left) and ceratopsian dinosaurs (bottom right)

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2019-09-26

If you are an “awesomebro” and you are sad and depressed because dinosaurs are no longer depicted like the scaly movie monsters you so desperately want, you might want to look at Mesozoic pseudosuchians. They might be closer to what you want

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2018-10-31

Every time someone tells me “crocodiles are living fossils, they have never changed in millions of years” I go and reconstruct one of the MANY odd looking pseudosuchians (croc-line archosaurs) that will appear in my book

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2018-04-27

These footprints were the centre of a Experts reckon they were made by Ticinosuchus, a Middle Triassic pseudosuchian (a crocodile ancestor).

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2018-02-16