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[makairodonx]

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus walking away with a half eaten Lungfish freshly-caught from the river waters as two Alanqa Saharia fly overhead

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

The duality of pterosaurs...

[justgoji]

Alanqa remake

[kattheerat]

started another wip i will never finisb 🥰

[imperatorcaesaraugustus]

Alanqa

[252mya]

Bahariya retro mug

Get a mug with this synthwave-inspired design that illustrates a landscape from the Bahariya Formation. This Late Cretaceous scene features the silhouette of Spinosaurus among the mangrove tree ferns, as well as some flying Alanqa.

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Art by Joschua Knüppe

[veloci-raptor]

Fauna of the Kem Kem Beds

[nathan-e-rogers]

Spinosaurus

Late Cretaceous, North Africa

An image inspired by the recent paper by Dr. David Hone and Dr. Thomas Holtz, Jr., "Evaluating the ecology of Spinosaurus: shoreline generalist or aquatic pursuit specialist?" published in Palaeontologia Electronica, January 2021: https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2021/3219-the-ecology-of-spinosaurus

I tried to depict the Spinosaurus here using its sail both for intraspecific display and to cast shadows on the water as some modern herons and egrets do in a behavior known as "canopy feeding". Above, a large azhdarchid and two ornithocheirid pterosaurs cruise by, and in the water a Neoceratodus lungfish is about to become the next meal for the Spinosaurus.

Dr. Hone has a great podcast, in which you can learn more about the history and current ideas about Spinosaurus: https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s03e01-spinosaurus-megasode

Digital painting done with Photoshop and a Wacom tablet, 2021.