#thyreosaurus

[totaldino]

Thyreosaurus

Thyreosaurus is a stegosaurian dinosaur characterized by a unique armor resembling those of nodosaurid ankylosaurs more than those of its fellow stegosaurs. The bony growths appear to have laid flat on the animal's back, rather than standing erect. However, due to the disarticulated nature of the fossil specimen, their exact position remains unknown.

[chameleocoonj]

flocking time

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Here, again, my idea for Thyreosaurus. I had a lot of fun speculating about the appearance of this one. It has some crazy osteoderms that aren't like anything we see in stegosaur otherwise.

The big questions were: how were these positioned? Were they homologous to the plates? If not, did these replace them or did they have a complete different position and function?

One of the most interesting feature for me is that these plates seem to be concave, so they likely formed shallow depressions on the animal; a fun idea. Here my first impression sketch, just an hour after the paper came out.

The version I did on the stream differs slightly, with a more fluent transition from hip to tail plates. The partial skeletal reconstruction by @SlvrHwk_paleo (on Twitter) helped a lot.

I should say that this interpretation of the animal is totally subjective, it could be way more conventional or way weirder. I hope people continue to experiment with it and I hope more excavations will bring more of this material to light. Don't take my work as gospel.

Also: THIS IS NO APRILS'S FOOL JOKE

[cypressure]

Flocking 4/5/24 -- Altispinax + Thyreosaurus + Mapusaurus + Ornithoprion

[ppaleoartistgallery]

Paleostream 6/04/2024

here are today's #Paleostream sketches!!!

today we drew Altispinax, Thyreosaurus, Ornithoprion, and Mapusaurus

[makairodonx]

Impression of Thyreosaurus atlasicus, a recently-discovered stegosaur from the mid Jurassic of Morocco that is unusual among its kind for having rows of plates that lay flat against its body, rather than standing vertically as in other genera such as Dacentrurus, Stegosaurus and Tuojiangosaurus.

[the-dragon-girl-27]

flocking drawings!!

Young Altispinax preparing to do a mating display

Thyreosaurus slaying a Theropod

Ornithoprion just swimming round

Mama Mapusaurus bringin home a Chakisaurus carcass for her daughter

[fishsfailureson]

Thyreosaurus