PaleoButch

I draw Paleoart and love archeology and paleontology:)/TheyThem/20/Feel free to request or ask questions!

[dinomoder]

Tense Encounter

Some rexies having a territory dispute

[makairodonx]

Skeletal restoration of Gonkoken nanoi, the newly-discovered hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Maastrichtian of Chile

[psie-smutki]

Path of Titans, had fun creating a lil silly field journal for my alioramus Perun to post on server. I love making boooks

[paleoartbutch]

Alamosaurus sanjuanensis! The Alamosaurus is a genus of opisthocoelicaudline titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs containing a single known species, Alamosaurus sanjuanensis, it is the largest known dinosaur in North America. No skull has ever been found but scientists have made possible recreations like the one in the drawing.

[alphynix]

The tuzoiids were an enigmatic group of Cambrian invertebrates known mostly just from their spiny bivalved carapaces. Although hundreds of fossils of these arthropods were discovered over the last century or so, only vague fragments of the rest of their bodies have been found even in sites usually known for preserving soft tissue impressions.

…Until late 2022, when several new specimens from the Canadian Burgess Shale deposits (~508 million years ago) were described showing tuzoiid anatomy in exceptional detail, finally giving us an idea of what they looked like and where they fit into the early arthropod evolutionary tree.

Tuzoiids like Tuzoia burgessensis here would have grown up to about 23cm long (~9"). They had large eyes on short stalks, a pair of simple antennae, a horizontal fluke-like tail fan, and twelve pairs of appendages along their body – with the front two pairs at the head end being significantly spinier, and most (or all) of these limbs also bearing paddle-like exopods.

The large carapace enclosed most of the body, and was ornamented with protective spines and a net-like surface pattern that probably increased the strength of the relatively thin chitinous structure.

Together all these anatomical features now indicate that tuzoiids were early mandibulates (part of the lineage including modern myriapods, crustaceans, and insects), and were probably very closely related to the hymenocarines.

Tuzoiids seem to have been active swimmers that probably cruised around just above the seafloor, with their stout legs suggesting they could also walk around if they flexed their valves open. The arrangement of their spiny front limbs wasn't suited to grabbing at fast-swimming prey, but instead may have been used to capture slower seafloor animals or to scavenge from carcasses.

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[paleoartbutch]

Archaeopteryx!

This fluffy boy was around 147 million years ago. Interesting fact, due to the fossilized colour-imparting melanosomes we know the color of the archaeopteryx feathers was black.

If you wanna learn more on this I learned this from this article: https://www.nature.com/ articles/ncomms1642

[cutefunnynerdy]

“Seestor, Terzo ate my cookies again”

[paleoartbutch]

Gonna kick this account off with my fav mammal!

Smilodon Fatalis, they are a saber-tooth cat belonging to the Machairodontinae subfamily. They lived 700,000-11,000 years ago during the Pleistocene and into the Holocene

This is my interpretation off it’s coat probably not accurate but based on ancient art I’ve seen, it does seem to have a pattern of sorts.

[carvente]

Tank deployment in the mezosoic water wars

Tarchia from Prehistoric planet, study by me

More.

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[wootusart]

Jurassic June day 13.

Tylosaurus.

Commission.

[paleoartbutch]

Gonna kick this account off with my fav mammal!

Smilodon Fatalis, they are a saber-tooth cat belonging to the Machairodontinae subfamily. They lived 700,000-11,000 years ago during the Pleistocene and into the Holocene

This is my interpretation off it’s coat probably not accurate but based on ancient art I’ve seen, it does seem to have a pattern of sorts.