The best figure of every species, according to Halichoeres

[Halichoeres]

Vertebrates of the Devonian! All of these were released in painted versions by Oumcraft in 2022, and from a design standpoint are indebted to the Palaeopedia Tumblr blog.


Ctenaspis
Scale: 1:2 - 1:3
Lower Devonian
Etymology: Gr. "comb shield"
Straight from a Palaeopedia illustration; still, I'm glad to have a version of this distinctive jawless fish on my shelf. The gills were at the back of the shield where it joins the more flexible body; I wonder if the water being ejected helped with the flow of water along the tail.


Doryaspis
Scale: 1:5
Lower Devonian
Etymology: Gr. "spear shield"
The jawless fish with the chin that won't quit. I'm sure it was mostly defensive, but it's fun to imagine them as little undersea carpenters using the serrated projection to cut coral or driftwood to size.


Furcacauda
Scale: 1:3 - 1:4
Lower Devonian
Etymology: L. "fork tail"
This goofy looking little fella had no teeth, except maybe in its skin--thelodonts like this one are the origin of the 'outside-in' hypothesis for tooth evolution, namely, that teeth evolved as integumentary structures and only later were recruited for food processing in the mouth. Cool to have some thelodonts in plastic.


Rhinopteraspis
Scale: 1:25
Lower Devonian
Etymology: Gr. "nose wing shield"
This animal was absolutely huge, you know, for a pteraspidomorph. Maybe a little less than a meter, making it pretty hard to eat for most of its contemporaries other than maybe the very largest eurypterids. Fun fact: this genus was named by Otto Jaekel, the same guy Jaekelopterus is named after.


I moved recently, so I don't have a bunch of figures handy for comparisons. But trusty Homer will do in a pinch.

Regardless of chronological inconsistencies, I think that Placerias would scale relatively well with many BotM figures.

We just need BotM to make some Triassic species!

Thanks Tim!  I would like to have a Stygimoloch and I can't quite decided between the one I quoted, the newer Mattel mini figure and the Eikoh.  I might need to get all three and see which I like most.

I recommend the Captivz one!

Actually, that's a good idea. Miniatures always have somewhat oversized feet, but I think the Captivz version has more proportionate ones than any of the Mattel ones. If I didn't have the Takara Tomy mini I'd probably have gotten a Captivz one.

[Concavenator]

We just need BotM to make some Triassic species!

Oh we all know the Triassic is heavily ignored. It's partially a bit surprising that Creative Beast has been around for all of these years, yet they haven't made a single figure of a Triassic creature! That, considering that the Triassic is one of the three periods that make up the Mesozoic, the usually so-called "dinosaur era". And I said partially because if one takes into account just how overlooked the Triassic tends to be compared to the Jurassic and the Cretaceous (especially the latter), it's not that shocking, then.

I would deem Herrerasaurus to be the most likely Triassic creature they'd tackle, and I'm not sure I'd consider it to be a particularly likely release either, but well, let's hope at least. They'd surely do a great job.

And congrats on these, those Oumcraft figures represent yet another proof that the 1:35 scale, despite being usable for medium-sized to large animals, really is deleterious to small creatures like these. Some of which are rather unique and important. I appreciate the consistency to making figures of smallish animals in 1:35-or so scale that can be seen in Wild Past's and Haolonggood's ranges, but at the same time I'm grateful for those companies that realize there is life beyond the 1:35 scale (figuratively, and perhaps literally too!).