Your Favorite Artwork(s) of Your Favorite Fossil Species

[Concavenator]

Yi by Gabriel Ugueto.

[Halichoeres]

Got kind of a partridge vibe!

Hirokazu Tokugawa recently shared this Tanystropheus sculpture on his blog:



I wish he were still making models for Favorite Co!

[Concavenator]

That's an impressive Tanystropheus!

[Sim]

H @HD-man, how is that Halszkaraptor outdated?  I can't view the link you included at the moment.

[HD-man]

H @HD-man, how is that Halszkaraptor outdated?  I can't view the link you included at the moment.

Better?: https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-024-02222-5

[Sim]

Yes, thanks.  So the paper suggests Halszkaraptor was an insect-eater.  It's a potentially interesting paper, but 1. I can't work out what most of its charts mean, and 2. they appear to have used an outdated skull reconstruction for Deinonychus.  I'm also sceptical of their claim that Velociraptor was mostly a scavenger.  I recall reading that only flying animals could be primarily scavengers as terrestrial animals wouldn't be able to sustain sufficient energy to locate a regular supply of corpses.  The Fighting Dinosaurs Velociraptor specimen also has one of its sickle claws in the Protoceratops's throat, I think it knew where would be best to strike it.  First Tyrannosaurus, then Allosaurus and now Velociraptor gets called a scavenger.  It seems some people are too keen to call dinosaurs scavengers.

[Sim]

Thalassomedon haningtoni:

By Dmitry Bogdanov
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By Nobu Tamura
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By Vlad Konstantinov
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By Mohamad Haghani
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[HD-man]

Time for my number seven, Baryonyx walkeri!

These are probably my older & newer favorites, respectively:

I also especially like Csotonyi's JW website Baryonyx (which reminds me of what could've been: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D98f3yhVWw ) & Bonadonna's "Paleocreatures of the Black Lagoo[n]" (which "stands out for its dynamic framing and composition": https://fundaciondinosaurioscyl.blogspot.com/2016/11/ganadores-del-viii-concurso.html ):

Today I want to share some of my favorite artwork of 2 of my favorite dinosaurs, and both of them come from the Morrison Formation (my favorite geological formation): Allosaurus and Diplodocus.

I still haven't decided on newer favorites for either, but this is definitely my older favorite for both:

To add to my 12/10/22 post ( https://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=10177.msg334245#msg334245 ), here's another 1 of my favorites ( https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2015/04/diplodocidae-brontosaurus.html ). I also especially like Bonadonna's Certosaurus (to add to my 7/9/22 post: https://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=10177.msg323660#msg323660 ):

[Concavenator]

Diabloceratops by Andrey Atuchin.

[DinoFan2010]

Mark Witton's Spinosaurus:

[HD-man]

To add to my 12/10/22 post ( https://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=10177.msg334245#msg334245 ), here's another 1 of my favorites ( https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2015/04/diplodocidae-brontosaurus.html ). I also especially like Bonadonna's Certosaurus (to add to my 7/9/22 post: https://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=10177.msg323660#msg323660 ):

I wanted to include Knüppe's Ceratosaurus in my previous post, but couldn't find it until recently ( https://www.deviantart.com/hyrotrioskjan/art/The-Europasaurus-Graphic-Novel-Snippet-2-863721171 ):

[Concavenator]

Deinonychus by Tom Parker.

[Cenozoic Fauna]

3m specimen


3m specimen compared to 6m specimen


Quinkana by Tom Parker

It was a terrestrial mekosuchine crocodile that lived during the late Pleistocene of Australia, and had ziphodont dentition.

[Concavenator]

Halszkaraptor by SumDinoDrawingDude.

[DefinitelyNOTDilo]

Planning on printing a life size one of those bois, absolutely adorable lil duck raptors.

[Concavenator]

Planning on printing a life size one of those bois, absolutely adorable lil duck raptors.

Adorable for sure, but turns out Halszkaraptor is no longer "the duck raptor"! For more info, check out Tse, Miller & Pittman 2024. The title of "duck raptors" can now go to unenlagiines instead. 

[DefinitelyNOTDilo]

Planning on printing a life size one of those bois, absolutely adorable lil duck raptors.

Adorable for sure, but turns out Halszkaraptor is no longer "the duck raptor"! For more info, check out Tse, Miller & Pittman 2024. The title of "duck raptors" can now go to unenlagiines instead. 

Iirc that paper just says that they ate bugs, not fish, plenty of ducks eat bugs, including the ones I have at home, and I believe it's still thought to be aquatic. I'd consider unenlagiines to be more stork dromaeosaurs.

[HD-man]

IDK her genus, but she's 1 of the most beautiful dromaeosaurs I've ever seen: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/when-the-first-warm-blooded-dinosaurs-roamed-earth/

[Concavenator]

Sinosaurus by Everett Mancke.

[oscars_dinos]

I aspire to have one of my drawings be someone's Favorite Fossil Species drawing lol