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

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Spinosaurus aegyptiacus walking away with a half eaten Lungfish freshly-caught from the river waters as two Alanqa Saharia fly overhead
The duality of pterosaurs...
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Art by Joschua Knüppe
Fauna of the Kem Kem Beds
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.