palaeo blogging

Not to get all political or anything, but the Permian and Triassic periods? Metal as heck. Hi, I'm just an autistic Canadian pal blogging about palaeontology, and occasionally archaeology and paleoanthropology. Icon art by Ray Jacobs.

[makairodonx]

Color pencil-and-ink impression of the strange European Eocene mammal Anoplotherium commune, which may have been related to camels as well as the contemporary oreodont herbivores of North America

[dinodorks]

Latirhinus by HodariNundu

[zzthekaiju]

The living, breathing definition of head empty, face happy.

Yeah, Surviving Earth is pretty good so far.

[saint-nevermore]

day 11 is a ceratopsid with a jack-o-lantern frill. wendiceratops is brandishing a spoopy colour scheme this year! :0 @a-dinosaur-a-day

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…

Here's a study of the (probably) arboreal Suminia, commissioned in 2022 for a project I cannot talk about yet. It is a small therapsid, which I chose to make hairy but it might not have been.

[allosuchus]

Specimens of Tsoabichi greenriverensis described in this study; from Green River Formation, Lake Gosiute deposits, Wyoming, USA.

With Gosiutichthys parvus in D.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Specimens-of-Tsoabichi-greenriverensis-described-in-this-study-from-Green-River_fig1_354024752?__cf_chl_f_tk=JePr_9OdYfBFUX.SvbZa1kdulAtUo9.d.kLLgkpEOww-1783379085-1.0.1.1-rtfGySnf.0jgz7ztGyHm.uV0laejWuMNHyWflnA.ZaU

Figure 2. Specimens of Tsoabichi greenriverensis described in this...

Download scientific diagram | Specimens of Tsoabichi greenriverensis described in this study; from Green River Formation, Lake Gosiute depos

[sophronns]

Art by nupotsu104 on Twitter.

Kolponomos newportensis or Kolponomos clallamensis, the artist didn't specify.

[daily-mspaint-paleoart]

29/08/2025 Vivaxosaurus

[saritawolff]

#Archovember Day 27 - Animantarx ramaljonesi

Animantarx ramaljonesi was a nodosaurid from Cretaceous Western North America. Like other nodosaurs, it was heavily armoured but lacked a tail club. Yet with a name meaning “Living Fortress” it’s clear that, however small, Animantarx’s spiky neck armour would have made it just a bit too much effort for many predators.

Fossils in the Cedar Mountain Formation are often slightly radioactive, and Animantarx was the first dinosaur to be discovered through technology, following a radiological survey performed in the area. Animantarx was completely buried beneath the surface, but the radioactivity of its fossilized bones set off the scanner! That being sad, not much of its skeleton was found. Only the lower jaw, the back half of the skull, neck and back vertebrae, and parts of both front and hind legs were recovered. No other specimens of Animantarx have been found since. But this was enough to see that it was related to the giant nodosaur Peloroplites and fill in the pieces from there.

Animantarx would have lived alongside ornithopods like Eolambia (also discovered by the same couple, Carole and Ramal Jones, via radiography), Hippodraco, Iguanacolossus, Planicoxa, and Tenontosaurus, sauropods like Abydosaurus, Brontomerus, Cedarosaurus, and Moabosaurus, the basal therizinosaur Falcarius, the troodontid Geminiraptor, the tyrannosauroid Moros, the ornithomimosaur Nedcolbertia, the allosauroid Siats, the giant dromeaosaurid Utahraptor, and fellow ankylosaurs like Cedarpelta, Gastonia, and Peloroplites.

[cellulosaurus]

Edmontosaurus looks ridiculous

[queer-dinosaurs]

Two female Cumnoria prestwichii ignore a displaying male in favour of eachother.

No fancy mating displays getting between these gals!

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[alithographica]

If anyone is wondering, yes, I’m still around and still drawing—I’m finally back to sketching at the museum again and am really enjoying the routine. At the same time, I’m having a strange time trying to balance lots of work and the reality of living in a country that keeps beating its own personal record of inexcusable evil. It’s hard to hope for more or less than our utter collapse. Hasn’t left much brain space for social media updates, but I’m going to try to post again occasionally as I do have a handful of new drawings stashed away.

Megacerops, an ancient horse relative, from a sculpture at the American Museum of Natural History.

[yesornopolls]

Without looking it up, do you know what opabinia is?

Without looking it up, do you know what opabinia is?

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Voting ended onJul 10

[feathersandspurs]

Albertosaurus color designs! The Albertosaurus is one of the apex predators that took advantage of the open prairies. They hunt bison, horse, cattle, some of the sauropods, cowboys, and Dryptosaurus. Albertosaurus live in small family pods ruled by a matriarch(generally the grandma of the group). The males have shiny reflective scales along their crest, while the females tend to lack this feature. The Redwood and Coyote variants live over in California and hunt young Alamosaurus within the redwood forests. Very few have ever attempted to tame an Albertosaurus due to how territorial they are and how violently they resource guard.

[lostbeasts]

Ottoia. A (pretty disturbing-looking) Cambrian priapulid- priapulid meaning “penis worm”. It would have burrowed beneath the ocean sediment of prehistoric British Columbia, and captured prey with it’s spiny, eversible proboscis. There have been an astounding number of specimens found in the British Columbia Burgess Shale formation, suggesting both that it was abundant, and that the disintegration of the limestone cliffs they have been found below would have caused many casualties due to the relative immobility of the animal. (reconstruction by Michelle Bakay)

[escuerzoresucitado]

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Pamparaptor micros

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamparaptor

Name: Pamparaptor micros

Name Meaning: Pampas Thief 

First Described: 2011

Described By: Porfiri, Calvo & Santos

Classification: Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Pennaraptora, Paraves, Eumaniraptora, Dromaeosauroidea, Dromaeosauridae

Pamparaptor is a basal dromaeosaurid from the Turonian to Coniacian ages of the Late Cretacoues, about 89 million years ago. It was found in the Portezuelo Formation of the Neuquén Group, Patagonia, Argentina. It was originally named as a juvenile specimen of Neuquenraptor, but has since been named its own genus. It is known from a nearly complete left foot. It was a small raptor, only 5. to .7 meters long. 

Source: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamparaptor

Shout out goes to welcometotheworldoffandoms!