#anchisaurus

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Burgess Shale will be posted later today but here already the two pieces I did afterwards:

Nanaimoteuthis (with Parapuzosia) and Anchisaurus.

I will probably post more about the "Cretaceous Kraken" tomorrow.

[dinodanicus]

A simple portrait of the skittish prosauropod anchisaurus.

[plasmagruntcalvin]

When the morning came, not a breath was heard.

It lay dead in the mud, died in the night of old age. As is the nature of life, nothing lasts forever.

[retrosaurus]

Anchisaurus reconstruction in Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum 🦖

[antediluvianechoes]

Anchisaurus, Brian Franczak

The forest is home and the forest is horror to Anchisaurus. Some scents mean life, and some mean death. Some sounds are friendly, others chill the dinosaur's heart. The softness of the mud under its feet delights, while the sucking bogs of certain haunts bring panic. The forest is all yin and yang and Anchisaurus is its philosopher.

[fabfuta1234]

DinApril Day 27: A dinosaur (or group of dinosaurs) that you(r mother) think(s) are underappreciated.

Welcome to DinApril 2025, where instead of recycling my list from last year, I made my mom come up with the dinosaurs! Our twenty-seventh day features a dinosaur that my mother thinks is underappreciated: Anchisaurus polyzelus! A particularly large female has traveled forwards in time and is now wandering the Yale campus built on the land she used to roam, much to the surprise of a Yale student who's just gotten coffee. Based on footprints from Connecticut, a mature Anchisaurus could get much larger than the commonly-cited figure of six feet and grow up to TWENTY feet in length! To show that anchisaurians were closer to becoming true sauropods than previous "prosauropods" were, I pronated the Anchisaurus' wrists, which it was able to do.

Prosauropods/bipedal sauropodomorphs frequently get shafted. They were almost completely absent in Dinosaur King (which is yet another gripe I have about the show, the creators seemed to really dislike sauropodomorphs) with the exception of Eoraptor which wasn't known to be a sauropodomorph at the time, Mussaurus didn't appear in the Jurassic Park movies despite appearing in The Lost World, and I think that people tend to overlook them in general despite their high diversity (unless, of course, you're Eoraptor and people think you're the common ancestor of all dinosaurs). So have an Anchisaurus, one of the few East Coast dinosaurs and the first prosauropod I ever learned about.

Yes, I know the flag is short, but I needed a way for the viewer to know we're at Yale that would fit on the page.

Coloration inspired by the Gosnell Anchisaurus from an unknown year between the late 20th and early 21st century.

[pinkponytail4]

Anchisaurus but in Barbiecore 🦕🩷

[pleistocene-pride]