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#Paleostream 23/05/2026

here's this week's #Paleostream flocking sketches!!

this week we sketched Yoshi, Tylosaurus (most of us drew Tylosaurus rex), Xianshou (mine is inside a speculative Weltrichia sp.), and Argyrolagus

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#Paleostream 4/04/2026

here's what we sketched during this week's #Paleostream flocking!!!

this week we sketched Xiphodracon, Ectoconcus, Morganucodon, and Atlascystis

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Morganucodon ("Glamorgan tooth")

.. is an early mammaliaform genus that lived during the late Triassic period. It first appeared about 205 million years ago. Unlike many other early mammals, Morganucodon is well represented by abundant and well preserved, though in the vast majority of cases disarticulated, material.

Most of this comes from Glamorgan in Wales (Morganucodon watsoni), but fossils have also been found in the Yunnan Province in China (Morganucodon oehleri), in various parts of Europe and North America and some at least closely related animals (Megazostrodon) are known from exquisite fossils from South Africa.

Morganucodon was a small, plantigrade animal. The tail was moderately long. According to Kemp (2005) "the skull was 2-3 cm in length and a presacral body length of about 10 cm [4 in]. In general appearance it would have looked like a shrew or mouse". There is evidence that it had specialized glands used for grooming, which may indicate that, like present day mammals, it had fur...

(read more: Wikipedia)

illustration by FunkMonk (Michael B.H.)