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Would make sense with the rest of the island already being rich in Triassic and Permian fauna, especially with Pseudosuchians.
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)
Today’s #Stemcroctober 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 #Croctober #AtoZCrocs
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. #paleoart #sciart #pseudosuchians
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 #pseudosuchians #paleoart #sciart
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 #paleoart #sciart #pseudosuchians
I recently was invited to be a guest in an upcoming episode of @CommonDescentPC where I talked about #paleoart. It was so much fun to talk with Will and David. I’ll tell you more soon!. Here are some Mesozoic pseudosuchians for Will and some extant snakes for David #sciart
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 #paleoart #pseudosuchia
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 #paleoart #pseudosuchians