#vespersaurus

[cypressure]

flocking 3/21/25—Thescelosaurus, Sauroposeidon, Vespersaurus

i have not been on here much due to print fair insanity (which went great, if you were wondering!) followed by ongoing illness (not going so great) but i am trying to get through a little backlog of posts in preparation for my website revamp. and welcome to all the new followers also :D

[ppaleoartistgallery]

#Paleostream 22/03/2025

here's today's #Paleostream sketches!!!

today we sketched Sauroposeidon, Thescelosaurus, Vespersaurus, and Knoetschkesuchus

[princefluph]

Archovember day 7! Vespersaurus paranaensis! A small Theropod from the Cretaceous! I know that its unscientific that this animal would have the ability to poof up their plumage this much, but all the images I saw of them reminded me of pigeons and I pictured them doing a little courtship dance. Whats interesting about these animals is that they walked around on one middle toe rather than all three and so had the two outer toes up in the air.

[thedrawinggizzard]

Vespersaurus Paranaensis. Easily one of my personal favourite dinos, who doesn't love a lil guy with double raptor claws on each foot? Colours and patterns were inspired by lions.

[impulseimpact]

paleostream flocking 21th of march 2025

sauroposeidon thescelosaurus vespersaurus knoetschkesuchus

[veloci-raptor]

Flocking Together

Sauroposeidon/Thescelosaurus

Vespersaurus/Knoetschkesuchus

[si-nequal-is]

Vespersaurus paranaensis

[saritapaleo]

Archovember 2024 Day 7 - Vespersaurus paranaensis

The rare noasaurids were a family of theropod dinosaurs belonging to the group Ceratosauria, and were related to the short-armed abelisaurids. One noasaur, Masiakasaurus, brought the family into the limelight recently with its appearance on Prehistoric Planet. But in Cretaceous Brazil, a different noasaur left its strange, monodactyl footprints across the sand. Vespersaurus paranaensis had two “killing claws”, on each foot, but not like a Velociraptor, or a Balaur, or even like modern Accipitriformes. Instead, it walked on its middle toe, while its 2nd toe and outer toe were raised off the ground. This may have been an adaptation to moving swiftly across the hot sand of the Botucatu Formation, a vast Cretaceous desert. Such an adaption has not been found in any other archosaur. Vespersaurus probably didn’t actually use these claws for hunting, and was likely a generalist, chasing down small, fast animals, opportunistically scavenging the kills of other predators, or hunting weak and injured animals. It may have instead used its claws in powerful defensive kicks, similar to modern cassowaries.

Other named species have yet to be found in the Botucatu Formation. Aside from Vespersaurus, other fossils include indeterminate coelurosaurs, ornithopods, lizards, tritylodontids, and mammals.

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