Result from the Dinosaur Park Formation #paleostream! This formation was on the wheel from the start and I anticipated and dreaded it at the same time. As one of the most famous dinosaur bearing formations this piece offered several challenges.
The major issue is that we have so much megafauna here. The way we eventually brought at least a few of them into the same frame was by having a migrating herd of Centrosaurus coming by a bunch of hadrosaurs licking salt from steep shorelines in this oxbow lake.
To reduce at least a little the amount of fauna to take into account we limited ourselves to the upper portion of the lower member of this formation. This graphic by discord member Vidax came in handy. The Dinosaur Park formation preserves the remnants of a large river system (more than 100 m wide) that once flew into the WIS. I imagine this piece to take place in the mid portion where the river meanders a lot. One would expect lots of sidearms and oxbow lakes to form here.
This piece wasn't as full as last weeks Las Hoyas but I also didn't want to burden the composition to much by cramming several more herds in here or pile up small fauna in the foreground. As you can see in these size charts by Montana, there is a lot to play with.
I still hope that the general vibe comes across though, the thing I maybe miss the most is a flock of ornithomimosaurs, but what can you do :P
