LoamLizzard

Phalacroichthys stellaris, Neojohn hirsutus, and Scyllaricoralis crypta, fictional marine non-tetrapods and my second entry for phase II of #LemuriaChallenge!

Chaohusaurus geishanensis
#Ichthyursday week 2

Results from the Flocking #paleostream!
Palaeocampa, Nektognathus, Wudingloong, Mirasaura

Its finally out! Please Welcome Mirasaura! A new drepanosaur from the Middle Triassic of France.
@serpenillus.bsky.social made the press artwork but I couldn't hold back and had to do my own interpretation during break time... =)

Thank you!!

Hatzegopteryx joins the party! And will now be leaving to its new home since its a commission. If you'd like to order your own custom pipe cleaner pterosaur, shoot me a DM! I can do any pterosaur, not just azhdarchids.

#pterosaur #paleoart #paleontology #dinosaurs

"Good merchants makes the best of unexpected situations. For instance, a prolonged heat wave will likely mean an increase in families heading to the beach to escape the heat, many of whom will be in need of a refreshing beverage..."

#iguanodon #dinosaur #paleoart #illustration #procreate

Temnodontosaurus trigonodon
#Ichthyursday week 1

In addition to the chondroderms, the flipper also has horizontal ridges and a flexible "winglet" on its tip. Together these adaptations would have reduced acoustic and hydrodynamic disturbance, making Temnodontosaurus a stealthy deep-water predator.

Narrow cartilaginous structures called chondroderms line the trailing edge of the flipper. In life, these would have greatly reduced the fluid turbulence produced as the ichthyosaur moved, very similarly to the adaptations owl feathers have for silent flight!

Congrats to Lindgren et al. on their article "Adaptations for stealth in the wing-like flippers of a large ichthyosaur". A remarkable fossil preserving soft tissue of the flipper of ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus revealed never before seen traits.

One of the coolest cases of convergent evolution was just published yesterday, so I was inspired to draw them together - Temnodontosaurus trigonodon and Tyto alba.

#paleoart #paleontology #ichthyosaurs #owls

In addition to the chondroderms, the flipper also has horizontal ridges and a flexible "winglet" on its tip. Together these adaptations would have reduced acoustic and hydrodynamic disturbance, making Temnodontosaurus a stealthy deep-water predator.

Narrow cartilaginous structures called chondroderms line the trailing edge of the flipper. In life, these would have greatly reduced the fluid turbulence produced as the ichthyosaur moved, very similarly to the adaptations owl feathers have for silent flight!

Congrats to Lindgren et al. on their article "Adaptations for stealth in the wing-like flippers of a large ichthyosaur". A remarkable fossil preserving soft tissue of the flipper of ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus revealed never before seen traits.

Eotephradactylus, North America's oldest known pterosaur, enjoys a crustaceous snack.

Muttaburrasaurus was an Australian dinosaur discovered in the Mackunda Formation. It belongs to a group of basal Iguanodontian dinosaurs called Rhabdodontomorpha. It had powerful jaws with shearing teeth that could process even very tough vegetation like cycads.

A small herd of Murrabuttasaurus stop at a river on an early Cretaceous morning. The lead male and one of the females are occupied with mating while the other females are drinking.

Oh BOY! Story time!
All the way back in 2016, on our way back from Munich for a EAVP meeting, @dinosven.bsky.social‬ got a mail by Georg Göltz, attached were some first images of an incredible specimen. That evening we went over the material again and again...

I'm so sorry, I'm still new to this app 😭. I'll DM you as soon as I get home!

Oops sorry about that, should be fixed now!

You know what sure! DM me and we can figure that out.

Fly free my child

My new son. His name is Azhdarchidae gen. et sp. indet. I saw him in a dream once, he was yellow and made of pipe cleaners and felt.

#paleoart #paleontology #pterosaurs

A trawler hauling up its Enchodus catch in the Western Interior Seaway has attracted the attention of a hungry Xiphactinus.

#paleoart #paleontology #fish

Here is the original painting!

A redraw of Charles R. Knight's Brontosaurus painting I did back in 2021. I love retro dinosaurs despite their inaccuracies - they're very charming.

#paleoart #paleontology #dinosaurs

Dilophosaurus and Miku 💙🩵

#paleoart #paleontology #dinosaurs #miku

It’s #PortfolioDay!!

I’m an Arizona-based geology undergraduate and paleoartist (fossil necromancer) who illustrates a variety of extinct organisms back to life.

Running hadrosaurus, featuring Parasaurolophus, Lambeosaurus, and Corythosaurus. I painted these back in 2022, first digitally and then with acrylics on a canvas.

#paleoart #paleontology #dinosaurs