Ildar Gismatullin

Sketch of yawning mosasaur with scars.

Yawning Prognathodon overtoni for friends's Birthday. Prognathodon is a genus with a complex taxonomy. Some of its species have been reclassified as separate genera, while others are the opposite, such as this one, previously known as Brachysaurana. Done in Paint Tool Sai 2.0.

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Sketch of a feathered predatory dinosaur on an ocher background.

A portrait of Khankhuuluu mongoliensis (or "Mongolian dragon prince"), a tyrannosauroid from the Bayanshiree Formation. Its remains were previously described as belonging to Alectrosaurus, but are now classified as a separate genus. Done in Paint 3D.

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Known bones in a reconstructed skull of the herbivorous theropod dinosaur Falcarius, shown in multiple views.

New skull material of the early therizinosaurian dinosaur Falcarius: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪 (📷 @freewillie643.bsky.social & Zanno)

Illustration of Edmontosaurus walking through a muddy substrate, leaving footprints behind. A dead Edmontosaurus is in the background on its side.

Just in time for spooky season: DINOSAUR "MUMMIES!"

Unlike Egyptian mummies, these don't have squishy bits preserved, but the rock around these carcasses had clay capturing texture of scales, a midline crest w/ keratin spikes, &, brand new, feet w/ hooves! 🧪⚒️🦕🦖

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dire wolf/wolves by Mark Hallett.

Had no idea the pack hunt drawing at the bottom right was a thing, so this was a pleasant surprise.

Interesting idea and well executed! I wonder if it matches the range of motion in the shoulder, however.

Wow! That's great! Has he commented on posts about his own illustrations? On the old version of the blog or the new one?

One of my favorite dinosaur book illustrators! Every time I see new (for me) work of his, I feel genuine joy. I wonder why he stopped doing paleoart and if he's even still alive?

Papiliomaris kluessendorfae, first reported in 1985 as the Waukesha "Butterfly Animal", was recently described as a strange bivalved arthropod with three pairs of large, feathery appendages. Some reports indicate it could reach up to 20cm wide.

Black and white portrait of big predatory dinosaur with small nasal horn. Done in Paint 3D.

Portrait of Tameryraptor markgrafi, a carcharodontosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Bahariya Formation (Egypt). Its remains have long been attributed to Carcharodontosaurus, but it is distinguished by the presence of a small horn on its nose and symmetrical teeth.

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A black and white drawing of horned Ceratosaurus with its prey, juvenile Torvosaurus tanneri which has mor gracile appearance than adult. TIntegument of latter is based on skin impressions of possible megalosauroidean Juravenator starki from Germany. Done in Paint.

An adult Ceratosaurus nasicornis caught juvenile Torvosaurus tanneri. These theropods, like an Allosaurus, were found in the famous Morrison Formation, but their remains are much less common. Despite some differences in food sources, they competed and killed each other from time to time.

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The first #leech body #fossil predates estimated hirudinidan origins by 200 million years

peerj.com/articles/199...

@peerj.bsky.social #Annelida

A photograph and a line drawing of a fossil crocodilian (Diplocynodon) curled up above its nest. The head is moderately long and somewhat blunt and the body curles around the animal so that the tail curves around the skull. The illustration highlights the presence of several eggs surrounding the fossil.

A happy day 2 of #Croctober (lets see how long I can keep this going)
Crocs are well known for their parenting, but did you know that we even have fossils of them on their nest?
This specimen comes from Germany and clearly shows a Diplocynodon mother that died on her nest

It's a great solution to show such an ambiguous taxon from a long distance!

Thanks!

Thank you very much! Glad that you're back!

Black and white portrait of dinosauromorpf with partially feathered neck and scaly head. Done in Paint.

Portrait of dinosauromorph Pisanosaurus mertii from the Late Triassic of Argentina. It was either basal ornithishian (as classified initially) or silesaurid. In any case this animal was herbivore or omnivore a little more than a meter long. Neck filaments are speculative.

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Сan't wait to see the full version of the painting and paper, I think it will be interesting! 😀

Looks nice, it's for upcoming paper?

Freshly deceased Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis on a Jurassic sea floor covered in Belemnite rostra (a "belemnite battleground"). Artwork by Andrey Atuchin.

News @ Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken (UMO) in Bayreuth: new ichthyosaur, Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, named today after UMO's prime excavation site, the Jurassic clay pit Mistelgau. @olorotitan.bsky.social beautifully reconstructed the to-be fossil on a belemnite battleground typical for the locality.

Desert-y platform with various four-legged skeletons, some with big dorsal fins.

The big tableau of early Permian synapsids in the next gallery unified a bunch of mounted skeletons that had previously been in separate cases. A nearby lab area covered the concept of extinction ("the fate of all species") in general terms.

a 3D reconstruction of the skull of Thikarisuchus in lateral view, it is shown with enormous eyes, an overall oval head shape, tapering and short rostrum and heterodont teeth consisting of pointed anterior and bulbous posterior teeth

a 3D reconstruction of Thikarisuchus in dorsal view, the skull is broadly triangular with a tapering snout tip that is still fairly broad and large eyes

Croc fans simply can't catch a break, after Kostensuchus in late August and Paarthurnax just a week ago we got ANOTHER fossil croc published
Meet Thikarisuchus, a very small neosuchian from the Cenomanian of Montana

Gigantic dinosaur with 'claws like hedge trimmers' found with croc leg still in its jaws in Argentina Speedy megaraptor Joaquinraptor casali had big arms and claws like hedge trimmers that would have made T. rex's forelimbs look puny.

A megaraptoran skeleton! From the end of the Cretaceous!

Excited about the announcement of Joaquinraptor, the top predator down south when tyrannosaurs ruled the north. The Schwarzengger to T. rex's DeVito (at least in the arms category). My thoughts:

www.livescience.com/animals/dino...

Black and white drawing of feathered therizinosaurid with didactyl manus. Done in Adobe Photoshop.

Duonychus tsogtbaatari, a therizinosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Bayanshiree Formation (Mongolia). It's known by partial postcranial skeleton including dorsal vertebrae and both forelimbs. Duonychus has only two manual digits, with big and curved claws.

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Prognathodon currii is a mosasaur species. Here, it swims near pack of aulopiform fish from genus Enchodus.

dithered version.

Prognathodon currii swimming near small Enchodus pack. Art was inspired by some Pseudorca photoes.

#paleoart #mosasaur #prognathodon #mesozoic

#ZAVACEPHALE IS FINALLY OUT! 🥳 Our first definitive Early Cretaceous pachycephalosaur! (~15 my older than the previous oldest pachycephalosaurs) And the first hand material for the clade! I can't tell y'all how much of a pleasure it was to review this paper! ☺️

restoration of Cetotherium riabinini, small whale species

restoration of Austromola angerhoferi, extinct sunfish species

PARATETHYS INHABITANTS

#art #paleoart #cenozoic #miocene #whale #sunfish #extinct

Looks like tyrannosaurid skin.

Thank you!

Portrait of spinosaurid theropod with green, light grey and golden colors.

Portrait of Riparovenator milnerae, a baryonychine spinosaurid from Early Cretaceous of Isle of Wight. Remains of this theropod previously were assigned to Baryonyx. In this work I painted color on a black base - an unusual experience! Done in Adobe Photoshop.

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