#tetrapodomorpha

[pansylair]

Drew a rhizodus, an absolute monster of an animal that lived during the carboniferous period, roughly 5-7m in length (making it the largest freshwater fish that we know of) and a tetrapodomorph meaning it breathed air and is more closely related to us than to true blue and gilled fish!

We’ve even found land track marks from another genus of rhizodontid, they certainly got around!

I’d love to make some big stickers (and prints) of this fella if anyone was interested :-)

[mirtadraws]

As part of my research for this design, I looked at so many extinct creatures, mostly strange fish. Enjoy this collection of early lobe-finned fish and Tetrapodomorpha

Names are in captions & tags. Most of these come from Wikipedia, some are models from museums, the Guiyu is from this article, Tiktaalik I found here, idk where the image comes from originally

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Trick or treat?

TREATS!

Pick one! :)

[stxllarvision]

[justgoji]

Ichthyostega stensioei, one of the earliest known four limbed vertebrates in the fossil record.

With Hatsune Miku for scale:

[overlordpony]

fish out of water

a limited palette and my first attempt at making a very-dead creature look realistic i probably should have just used a normal palette to color him in but it's FINE this is a crassigyrinus -- he existed in the mississippian, about 350 mya he is a stem-tetrapod, so his efforts to make it onto land were futile and ended with him

[that-crazy-scorpio-man]

Common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina).  Saw it right after I had to bypass a moccasin.

[alphynix]

Eucritta melanolimnetes, an amphibian-like creature from the Early Carboniferous of Scotland (~335 mya). About 25cm long (10″), it had a mixture of anatomical characteristics similar to baphetid stem-tetrapods, temnospondyls, and reptile-like amphibians, making its exact classification difficult. It’s currently considered to be a close relative of both the baphetids and Crassigyrinus, and it was probably close in appearance to what the common ancestor of all later tetrapods would have looked like.

Its name means “true creature from the black lagoon”, in homage to the 1954 monster movie.