#xiaotingia

[daily-mspaint-paleoart]

24/05/2026 Xiaotingia

[fishsplash]

Specimen #33616

Xiaotingia Zhangi

I had this thought, what if dinosaurs were still around? Would we keep the smaller ones like this guy as bird specimens? (timelapse below)

[percivalias]

The Maniraptoran Alphabet (Part 5)

Aaaand here's the fifth and final part of my dinosaur alphabet! Thanks for joining me, everyone - I hope you enjoyed it! Let me know if you'd be interested in a physical book or poster or something of these together; I'm planning on making something like that for myself & friends and I would be happy to make a few extra to sell if there's interest.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Trick or treat!! 🦢

Xiaotingia!

[vickysaurus]

Here’s some of the amazing diversity of Mammaliaformes of Jurassic China. Volaticotherium glides in pursuit of a tasty bug. Agilodocodon, an excellent climber, already got one and brings it back to its young in the trees. Some Docofossors are digging up the lawn. Castorocauda, the largest mammaliaform of the Mesozoic, is going for a swim. With the exception of Volaticotherium, these are all Docodonts, a group closely related to the crown group mammals, having branched off a little before the monotremes did. I wanted to show off how much more diverse and interesting Mesozoic mammals were than we usually imagine. They did a lot more than cowering from dinosaurs and being eaten by them!

That said, Jurassic China also had some really cool dinosaurs.Yi qi, the actual real-life dragon, is going for a flight. A truly enormous Xiaotingia is having a drink. Please mentally halve the size of that big boy, I accidentally drew it way too large, that is a little birdie that should be easily outsized by Castorocauda. Finally, being neither a dinosaur nor a mammal, the not at all confusingly named pterosaur Cascocauda is sitting in the trees getting ready for a flight.

[idoodle2draw-marquer]

i'm honestly so obsessed with dinosaurs i thought about seeing what it would look like to turn all my sonas into dinosaurs themselves of course, most of my aliases are ridiculous hybrids so, it wouldn't be any less of such in dino form xD here i mixed a Terror Bird with a Xiaotingia for Wylie's transformation!

originally being a parrot / vulture mix- i couldn't find any prehistoric birds similar to vultures that intrigued me, but then i remembered Terror Birds and how much i love them? looking for prehistoric feathered friends was quite a feat, as you're either given bat-winged dinos such as the Quetzalcoatl and the Pteranodon, or several theropod and raptor friends. as much as i ADORE raptors, i wanted to do something a little different for once. now, the Xiaoti resembles Microraptors in looks, but are depicted to be much more colourful so i went with that! it was either that or an Archaeopteryx Cx i'm not very creative but this was fun to make nonetheless! definitely thinking about how to transform my other bois >83c i'm sure Wylie would look amazing anthrofied in this form eeee gonna have to try it sometime

[albertonykus]

What did the last common ancestor of Velociraptor and modern birds look like? Anchiornithids might give us a clue. These small dinosaurs lived 160 million years ago and are known from incredible fossils, often complete with skin and feathers.

Full view

[deathventuresinark]

meanwhile, in ARK.