Your favorite paleoart

[Supercommunist]

www.deviantart.com/vitor-silva/art/Start-of-a-New-Age-Santa-Maria-Formation-971716894

[Infinity Blade]

Early Permian forest. Art by Corbin Rainbolt->

[Supercommunist]

Ceratosaurus models:



www.ebay.com/itm/255795524730?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28&var=555731435444&srsltid=AfmBOoqf3ly8eQ0nFgnxNJ33GDWF_BW5cLzC6zkXVAmR6ZSV7wA2z2j4few



www.etsy.com/listing/1374365791/kentrosaurus-vs-ceratosaurus-scene-3d?gpla=1&gao=1&

[Exalt]

Jul 30, 2023 11:55:30 GMT 5 Supercommunist said:

Kelenken.

Art by pantydraco/(@ddinodan).

This reminds me, I've been wanting to ask how terrorbird nesting would work. Is that some kind of astrapothere head in the returning parent's mouth?

[Exalt]

Aug 7, 2023 16:49:21 GMT 5 Infinity Blade said:

I love these "slices" of prehistoric ecosystems based on fossil-bearing rock formations by Stieven Van der Poorten->. While they're stylized, they still give the viewer a good sense of what these animals plausibly looked like, as well as how their whole neighborhood, so to speak, looked.

I rather like these, especially as someone who has little knowledge of formations.

[Supercommunist]

Aug 20, 2023 2:27:40 GMT 5 Exalt said:

Jul 30, 2023 11:55:30 GMT 5 Supercommunist said:

Kelenken.

Art by pantydraco/(@ddinodan).

This reminds me, I've been wanting to ask how terrorbird nesting would work. Is that some kind of astrapothere head in the returning parent's mouth?

Yeah it's an astrapothere.

[Exalt]

It's a real shame how not all of these images are ones I can see. One mentioning Barinasuchus has the original tweet outright deleted.

[Supercommunist]

This one is probably the deleted Barinasuchus pic.

[Exalt]

Ah, thanks. I've actually seen this picture before. What is the unfortunate ungulate pictured here?

[Infinity Blade]

Aug 20, 2023 21:27:52 GMT 5 Exalt said:

Ah, thanks. I've actually seen this picture before. What is the unfortunate ungulate pictured here?

I believe it's supposed to be Theosodon.

[Infinity Blade]

The best Endoceras reconstruction I'm aware of. By Prehistorica (found on Tyler Greenfield's blog).



incertaesedisblog.wordpress.com/2020/02/16/reconstructing-fossil-cephalopods-endoceras/

[Exalt]

I ended up researching the operculum to understand what it is. Could Endoceras have retreated entirely into that shell?

[Infinity Blade]

Aug 23, 2023 6:11:11 GMT 5 Exalt said:

I ended up researching the operculum to understand what it is. Could Endoceras have retreated entirely into that shell?

Yes. This was probably their best anti-predator defense strategy.

For small, quick, highly maneuverable predators (e.g., pycnodontid fish), perhaps it was more favorable for an orthoconic cephalopod to hide in its shell rather than attempting to vertically escape. Therefore, vertically escaping from larger predators that mark certain death is likely a last resort for orthoconic cephalopods, which normally assume low-energy lifestyles (Chamberlain, 1993; Mutvei, 2002; Rowe et al., 2020; Hoffmann et al., 2021).

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8288114/

[Exalt]

Very real-looking art of a trilobite.

[Supercommunist]

So far most dinosaur survival/mmo games crash and fail but this one is notable for having creatures like anteosaurus and baurusuchus.