#psitaccosaurus

[ba1laur]

thanks for the suggestions 🦖

[romigodon]

One of my favorite details that exist in a lot of paleo-media, in particular vintage art and cinema, is the constant inclusion of an erupting cinder cone volcano as part of the backdrop.

It’s especially awesome because, in a lot of these cases, there’s no reason for a cinder cone volcano to even be there! It’s just this ever present volcanic threat in all of the prehistoric past.

Usually this is added for the extra drama that it invokes. Which comes across as especially funny because in some cases it’s in the background of several, multi-ton, animals violently murdering one another! It’s the terrifying T. rex, teeth and claws bared, lunging head first into the horns of a pissed off Triceratops, posed in mid-goring action.

There’s blood and growling and exposed bone! But you know what would really kick this up a notch? That’s right. Let’s blow up a fucking mountain! HOORAH!

(In case you thought this was just a thing in vintage paleomedia, here are some modern examples of this in recent years).

In this case, a Tyrannosaurus rex brutally attacks a Carnotaurus and then poses, dramatically, in front of an exploding cinder cone volcano in the background. From Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018).

Here, a Cretaceous mammal, Repenomamus, attacks a Psitaccosaurus while, yep, a pair of cinder cones prepare to erupt behind them! Art by Michael Skrepnick.

[hornraven]

I saw the trend of putting toy dinosaurs into mini terrariums, and so because I can't be Normal about things, I decided to repaint a Safari Toob and group them into Bayan Mandahu formation and Yixian formation terrariums. They aren't to scale, and the Sinornithosaurus is cosplaying as a Linheraptor in the Bayan Mandahu terrarium because I had too many in the Yixian, but it was still fun!

I should've gotten bigger containers with less warpy glass (might still if the plants grow too much), but for now, I am pleased.