#hypuronector

[justgoji]

Breaking news drepanosaurs are fucked up

[chameleocoonj]

cretoxyrhina, barinasuchus, clidastes, hypuronector

[the-dragon-girl-27]

Flocking doodles

Cretoxyrhina drowning a Pteranodon

Barinasuchus walking around at night

Clidastes preying on a flock of Hesperornis

Hypuronector doing a mating display

[ppaleoartistgallery]

#Paleostream 13/07/2024

here's today's #Paleostream sketches!!! today we drew Cretoxyrhina, Barinasuchus, Clidastes, Hypuronector

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

Results from todays flocking

The first sketch was cretoxyrhina, which I could do at the same time as everyone because eating, so I did this while everyone was posting In like uh ten minutes

Then we did

Barinasuchus

Clidastes

Hupuronector

[veloci-raptor]

Flocking Together #56

Cretoxyrhina

Barinasuchus

Clidastes

Hypuronector

[dinodanicus]

A male hypuronector is flushing color to his tail in the hopes of attracting a female.

[alphynix]

Hypuronector limnaios, a basal drepanosaur from the Late Triassic (~220 mya) of New Jersey, USA. Only around 12cm long (4.7″), it’s known from several incomplete fossils and was originally described as an aquatic reptile due to its flat paddle-like tail -- but the thin delicate bones and inflexible structure of the tail wouldn’t actually have made it very useful for swimming at all. It’s more likely that Hypuronector was a tree-climber like its relatives, with its odd leaf-shaped tail perhaps being used for some sort of display or camouflage.

It was probably still capable of swimming if it needed to, much like many other terrestrial animals, but it wouldn’t necessarily have been good at it. Possibly it would have moved somewhat like a modern chameleon in the water.