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Yo that Suminia piece was very cool YOU LOVE TO SEE IT but Darwinius lived 47 million years ago bruh, not 150

I said that Suminia lived 260 million years ago and Darwinius didn’t appear until 110 million years later, that’s 50mya, not 150

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Hey that’s me!

Yuzhoupliosaurus ‬chengjiangensis‭

Art by: Connor Ross, https://www.deviantart.com/rajaharimau98/art/Jurassic-January-18-Swimming-726296044

Name: Yuzhoupliosaurus ‬chengjiangensis‭

Name Meaning: ‬Yuzhou pliosaur

First Described: 1985

Described By: Zhang

Classification: Chordata, Tetrapoda, Reptilia, ‬Sauropterygia,‭ ‬Plesiosauria, ‬Rhomaleosauridae

Yuzhoupliosaurus ‬was a Rhomaleosaurid that was discovered in China. This marine reptile dates all the way back to the Middle Jurassic, and we currently have the mandible (lower jaw), few vertebrae, and parts of its pectoral girdle. It’s estimated to have been 13 feet (4 meters) in length. What’s really interesting, is that Yuzhoupliosaurus is currently hypothesized to have lived in a fresh marine ecosystem.

Sources:

http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/y/yuzhoupliosaurus.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzhoupliosaurus

#Yuzhoupliosaurus #palaeoblr #Not a dinosaur #sauropterygia

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It's been a day of Native American culture for me. First I visited the art exhibit at the campus museum featuring contemporary Native American art, then I downloaded a dozen Native American mods for Civ 6 (and played for hours as the Cheyenne); now I drew a primate with a Native American name. Ekwiiyemakius walshi was described last year by Amy Atwater; its name honors palaeontologist Stephen Walsh, and "Ekwiiyemak" (behind the clouds) references the Kumeyaay peoples' name for the Cuyamaca region of California. I went with an appearance here that is based off several related omomyids as well as modern tarsiers and other small basal primates. There's nothing more to this taxon than teeth; luckily, mammalian teeth are highly distinctive and are actually worth a scientific name most of the time. And of course, this tiny guy (about 120g, or the size of a lesser bushbaby) is sitting in a ginkgo tree, because I like ginkgoes.

#ekwiiyemakius #primate #omomyid #omomyidae #primates #eocene #california #cuyamaca #ekwiiyemak #paleontology #palaeontology #paleoart #palaeoart #palaeoblr #paleoblr #paleo #prehistoric #palaeo #prehistory #prehistoric mammals #cenozoic #drawing #traditional art #pencil

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Teratophoneus curriei

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Testing out my new tablet with this ugly mug.

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So, I’m not on Twitter but it has come to my attention that there was a discussion there involving an illustration that I made and the original photograph that I took inspiration from, and I feel that it’s worthwhile to talk about that.

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Deinonychus family…I was really inspired by Emily Willoughby’s feathered raptors for this.

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Some borbs as #SpiteRaptor goes around the Palaeoblrsphere

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Equus giganteus was probably one of the most terrifying horses to have ever existed. We have very scrappy remains with our best ones being teeth, but this is enough to extrapolate a size estimate - 20 hands tall at the shoulder (or 6.5ft/2m), and potentially up to 3,500lb/1,588kg, maybe heavier. It roamed across North America during the Pleistocene. Coloration here is based off sorraias and tarpans, and is probably one of my favorite color schemes I’ve come up with.

#equus #equus giganteus #horse #horses #giant horse #pleistocene #ice age #cenozoic #paleoart #palaeoart #paleontology #palaeontology #paleo #palaeoblr #paleoblr #prehistoric #prehistoric mammal #prehistoric mammals #prehistory

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Equus capensis! It’s what you get when you cross a zebra with a draft horse. As you can see, I tried to make this look a little more robust than a zebra, but could use a slight tummy tuck. The head is also slightly too high as it is beginning to stretch. Anyways, E. capensis was a close relative of the modern plains zebras. However, it’s limbs are closer in proportion to that of a draft horse, outranking even the modern Grevy’s zebra. Estimates slightly vary but it would have stood anywhere from 4.6-5.3ft/1.4-1.6m at the shoulder and would have weighed from 880-1100lb/400-500kg. Therefore the largest individuals would have stood more than 6ft at the head. It has been found in several southern African countries from the late Pliocene to early Holocene, as well as potentially in Egypt. The coloration here is somewhat inspired by quaggas. I love quaggas and they had a lot of interesting known color morphs. Soon we’ll meet an even larger horse.

#paleoart #palaeoblr #paleoblr #paleo #art #drawing #paleontology #equus #equus capensis #horse #zebra #cape zebra #cenozoic #pliocene #pleistocene #holocene

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Evolution Series: A Selection of Seals

Seals, sea lions and walruses, also known as pinnipeds, are incredible animals living in the border between land and sea. They are relatives of weasels and bears, and in some ancestors the resemblance is uncanny.

*The animals represented here are not to scale and don’t represent a direct line of descent, but rather plausible models for how this amazing transition happened.*

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Paleofiction Subgenres

The first post is up on the new Thagomizers blog! It’s all about paleofiction and its various sub-genres.🦖📚🎬🎮

Check it out here and let me know what you think:

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Shiriyanetta hasegawai

By Scott Reid on @drawingwithdinosaurs

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Name: Shiriyanetta hasegawai 

Status: Extinct 

First Described: 2015

Described By: Watanabe

Classification: Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Pennaraptora, Paraves, Eumaniraptora, Averaptora, Avialae, Euavialae, Avebrevicauda, Pygostylia, Ornithothoraces, Euornithes, Ornithuromorpha, Ornithurae, Neornithes, Neognathae, Galloanserae, Anseriformes, Anseres, Anatoidea, Anatidae, Anatinae, Mergini

Shiriyanetta is a relatively recently described genus of duck from Japan! Found in the Aomori Prefecture in Shiriya, Japan, it lived about 124,000 - 119,000 years ago, in the Tarantian age of the Pleistocene of the Quaternary. As such, it lived on the tail end of the last ice age. Similar to Chendytes from the Pacific Coast of North America, it too was a flightless diving duck. It’s musculature in its arms that would have been useful for flying is greatly reduced, it has a strong pelvis to aid in diving, and flattened wing fingers indicate the formation of the wings into diving flippers. In addition, its wings were much shorter than its legs, and it was a very large duck with thick bone walls, to aid in strengthening them. Though very similar to Chendytes, it seems they aren’t closely related, but rather evolved similar adaptations for flight independently. 

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Source: 

Watanabe, J., H. Matsuoka. 2015. Flightless diving duck (Aves, Anatidae) from the Pleistocene of Shiriya, northeast Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 (6): e994745

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also, while we’re loving on ceratopsids thanks to sinosaurus, check out this awesome skull calligram. source: http://cubelight.graphics/calligram-triceratops-skull

(i am in no way affiliated with these people. i just thought it was dope.)

stay sad, but with more nerdy art in your lives.

-sdfw

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also, while we’re loving on ceratopsids thanks to sinosaurus, check out this awesome skull calligram. source: http://cubelight.graphics/calligram-triceratops-skull

(i am in no way affiliated with these people. i just thought it was dope.)

stay sad, but with more nerdy art in your lives.

-sdfw

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Diplotomodon Needs Your Help

This past summer, I had an incredible experience out in Montana scouring the northern Morrison Formation for ancient beasts and lost worlds. It’s been part of an equally incredible year of research and related projects: I rode out to Chicago to get a firsthand look at some exciting new specimens from the depths of deep time (see image at the end of the post), I’ve been playing with some real old Leidy holotypes, I may have semi-accidentally so-far-informally commissioned Brian Engh for a painting or two, and I’m scheduled to present on the jaw morphology of Tiktaalik at SVP in Albuquerque in just over a week’s time.

However, all of this has been hindered by some sudden and unexpected challenges:

The high cost of city living, low income of museum work, and unforseen family medical issues over the summer have resulted in the uncomfortable but very real and scary fact that I am currently unable to properly take care of rent/utilities/personal bills.

Thankfully, I was able to register for SVP with enough advance notice, so I am still slated to present - but with not enough left to spare for flights/accomodation. Since 2019’s conference is in Australia, this year’s SVP will likely be the only major opportunity in my undergraduate years to network in person for potential job openings or grad school opportunities, and for once I know exactly who I need to talk to. But only if I’m there.

On top of all this, and probably the reason why it’s gotten so bad in the first place, at some point within the past few months my anxiety most likely developed into fullblown depression, which (in addition to the whole apathy and lack of motivation thing) is significantly more terrifying than I would have initially expected. Medication is obviously on my mind at this point. In theory I could deal with this after all the other stuff, but since I’m a bit new to all this that might not be the wisest of decisions.

I have not been able to reach out to family regarding any of this - partly because of the aforementioned medical issues, but mostly due to financial uncertainty on their end as well. Same goes for their own mental health - and I don’t want my own issues to potentially endanger their safety or well-being.

And with most other options exhausted, the only remaining (and admittedly shitty and unfair) option I could see involves turning to the folks on tumblr. Do I feel bad about it? Yes. But honestly I feel more scared right now than anything else.

As of now there are a few ways to help out:

PayPal: [email protected] (I know PayPal has a bit of a shitty reputation these days - if you know of decent alternatives, please feel free to share)

Venmo: @diplotomodon

And honestly even just shooting me a message is helpful at this point. I feel a little better when I can talk to people about it. And any questions are equally appreciated if you needed some things clarified (either publicly or privately).

Any support you can offer (through donations, messages, or reblogging/signal boosting), no matter how small it might seem, would mean the world to me right about now. I’ll provide updates as regularly as I can, and if I can promise one thing for sure, it’s that I’ll give it everything I’ve got to pay it forward.

(You can help me make ^this^ happen)

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some Anchiornis and Pumpkins

“They have nested in a jack-o-lantern… maybe not the best idea”

For @a-dinosaur-a-day Dinoween!

its nice to something with a known color scheme.

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Going to get back into doing daily animal vectors! Here’s a great auk for today!