#fruitafossor

[agiantshark]

After a dry period, brachiosaurus tracks provide a great pool for the local wildlife.

Featuring fruitafossor and a frog. Colorado, kimmeridgian (Jurassic)

[paleonativeart]

Day 7: Fruitafossor windscheffeli

A termite-eating theriimorph mammal endemic to North America during the Late Jurassic period around 150 million years ago.

[sargassos]

Slowly coloring every page I did for Dinovember last year, while actively plotting what I’m gonna do for this years coloring book.

This is not a dinosaur, it’s a mossy rock.

Also, psst, if you wanna color some dinosaurs, you can get this coloring book digitally right HERE

[synapsidgirl]

Instead of doing inktober this time, I’ve been doodling Sciartober prompts. Not all of them, and I started on day 11, got carried away with one of them, and I have no idea when I’m going to finish it, but here’s what I’ve done so far. So, day 11 - fish. Or in my case, a happy Castorocauda trotting home with a nice, big, juicy one. Day 17 - invisible. Hoplophoneus trying to dissapear from view. Day 18 - in the ocean. Basilosaurus, because of course it is . Day 19 - mammal. Fruitafossor, probably the earliest known relative of therian mammals. Day 20 - tiny. Hadrocodium, cause it tiny. It was an early Jurassic mammaliaform that was pretty cloe to crown group mammals. I kind of screwed up the thumb, and for some reason the shading looks much worse than it does in person. I also made two versions of this, but I decided to go with this one, because while I prefer the hand in the first on, it had really stark, dramatic light and shadow that detracted from the Hadrocodium. I should have predicted that drawing in a room lit only by small desk lamp will do that. I also managed to kill my back and left arm drawing these. Because of course I did.

[si-nequal-is]

Fruitafossor under Brachiosaurus skull with Fruitadens.

[she1badelf]

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[alphynix]

Month of Mesozoic Mammals #10: Termite-Eaters Fruitafossor

Living during the Late Jurassic of Colorado, USA (156-150 mya), Fruitafossor was one of the earliest known mammals specialized for feeding on colonial insects. It had peg-like enamel-less teeth and a reinforced spine surprisingly similar to those of modern armadillos and anteaters, and powerful digging forelimbs with only four fingers on each hand.

It’s known from an almost complete skeleton, about 15cm long (6″), but its highly modified features make figuring out its exact evolutionary relationships rather difficult. It may have been part of a very early offshoot of the theriiform lineage, something with no close living relatives but still converging on the exact same adaptations as placental mammal groups that wouldn’t emerge until the Cenozoic 100 million years later.

[sargassos]

Day 2 for Dinovember 2021! Gargoyleosaurus and a tiny Fruitafossor.

This was another problem child. First there were multiple under drawings to get the right angle on his limbs and spikes....and then there are just so many scutes and spikes, and in constantly changing angles, having to scale the armored areas without them all blending...and then I, a dope, went and made a busy lush background behind him.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m quite happy with this one, but he gave me some trouble. The only trouble the fruitafossor gave me was a lack of consistent reference pictures (which I expected) and how small it should be (it may be too small, I dunno).

The next few posts will be blindly scheduled until the 7th, as I will be out of service for a week. Hopefully they post accordingly 🤞

EDIT, 1/11/22: This entire Dinovember series has been compiled and is now available for purchase on Gumroad! The pages can be printed, or thrown into a digital program! Check it out HERE!