Oct 15, 2023
A little result from tonights #paleostream. We looked into the diversity of aetosaurs, Triassic tanks that are actually related to crocodiles.
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A little result from tonights #paleostream. We looked into the diversity of aetosaurs, Triassic tanks that are actually related to crocodiles.
Probably my favorite piece of fanart I've done: Saphira, one of the protagonists of Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle. Aside from Elves, Saphira is the non-human fantasy character I love the most so I wanted to go all out on making a detailed illustration of her. This design design is actually a hybrid of various dinosaurs and extinct croc relatives: - Aetosaurs (Scutarx, Typothorax) - Theropods (Allosaurus, Majungasaurus) - Prosauropods (Plateosaurus, Melanorosaurus) - Poposaurid (Poposaurus) - Rauisuchians (Postosuchus, Saurosuchus) - Phytosaur (Machaeroprosopus) - +Pterosaur wings
Archovember Day 29: Typothorax coccinarum
Typothorax coccinarum is an aetosaur from Late Triassic North America. Aetosaurs were herbivorous pseudosuchians covered in platelike osteoderms, looking and acting like the crocodile version of an ankylosaur.
Typothorax did not have shoulder spikes like Desmatosuchus, but it did have a pair of spikes on its neck. Uniquely, Typothorax also had spikes on the underside of its tail, near the cloaca.
Typothorax’s upturned snout and muscular forearms indicate that it was good at digging, and would probably root around for roots and tubers.
What kind of scaly integument should you give aeotosaurs, specifically desmatosuchus? Right now I'm going for tougher scales, not quite osteoderms, in uneven rows surrounded by round-ish small scales, with kinda squareish croc-like leg and finger/toe scales. But i can't say that's based in anything else than available tools at hand, a fear of them crocy osteoderms, and Serpenillus' reconstructions of other early crocs and 'crocomorphs'
when it’s 2am but your friend in another timezone invites you to a zoom lecture on aetosaurs and now you have to put your bra back on because they might be able to see you
The Rainbow Forest Museum in the Petrified Forest National Park. It displays an impressive collection of Triassic fossils - ranging from phytosaurs to therapsids.
An introduction to aetosaurs
An introduction to aetosaurs
The Triassic Period was one of the key episodes in the evolutionary history of life. It marks the transition from the Palaeozoic to the Mesozoic Era, preceded by the Permian/Triassic mass extinction – the greatest extinction event of all time. A conclusive explanation for it has still to be found, but it is presumed that massive eruptions of flood basalts in Siberia were a key factor. The…
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An introduction to aetosaurs
An introduction to aetosaurs
The Triassic Period was one of the key episodes in the evolutionary history of life. It marks the transition from the Palaeozoic to the Mesozoic Era, preceded by the Permian/Triassic mass extinction – the greatest extinction event of all time. A conclusive explanation for it has still to be found, but it is presumed that massive eruptions of flood basalts in Siberia were a key factor. The…
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