#ctenosauriscus

[cypressure]

Flocking 9/13/24 -- Cameroceras, Thalassotitan, Ctenosauriscus, Saltopus. lucky friday the 13th (we got to draw a little fluffy guy)!

[ppaleoartistgallery]

#Paleostream 14/09/2024

here's today's #Paleostream sketches!!!

today we drew Cameroceras, Thalassotitan, Ctenosauriscus, and Saltopus. not my strongest recent flocking im ngl, very happy with the Thalassotitan though

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

Results from yesterday’s flocking paleostream

yesterday was SO FUCKING GOOD!!!! We did cameroceras,

Thalassotitan,

Ctenosauriscus, (he has blimd eye)

And the teeny tiny mouse lizard, Saltopus

also I have escaped the vat of hammers and am nom stuck under your floors :3

[abby-howard]

So this past week was Triassic Weirdos week for my $2 patrons over on Patreon! I made little posts about eight of my favorite creatures from the Triassic, since I only talked about the late Triassic in the Earth Before Us book and the early Triassic was so chock full of fun critters.

Also, Shringasaurus was described a couple weeks ago, and I love the Crystal Palace vibes that thing gives off. I had to draw it!

[vickysaurus]

An early Triassic diorama starring Ctenosauriscus.

[alphynix]

Weird Backs Month #12 -- Ctenosauriscus

The sailbacked synapsids all died out by the mid-Permian, and it wasn’t until the Triassic that elongated vertebrae came back into evolutionary fashion -- but in the archosaurs this time, as they rapidly became the dominant land vertebrates in the aftermath of the massive Permian-Triassic extinction.

Ctenosauriscus was a poposauroid stem-crocodilian living during the Early Triassic of Germany (~247 mya), making it one of the very earliest members of the group. Known from a fairly complete sail and a few other small fragments, it's estimated to have reached lengths of up to 3.5m (11′5″).

Its large sail was once proposed as a sort of shock-dissipating system for the physical stresses of walking bipedally, but this is now considered unlikely.

It was probably quadrupedal instead, especially since the the sail would have shifted its center of gravity towards the front of its body -- too far forward for bipedal locomotion to be particularly viable. In the absence of limb bones, though, we don’t know for certain.