Theres something really mystical about this massive theropod. Im sure one day we'll discover a holotype that is mostly complete and a lot of questions will be answered. The last big thing I remember hearing was that it had a paddle tail. On a broader note, Spinosauridae to me has some of the most interesting looking dinosaurs out there with their long snouts and (sometimes) big arching spine bones.
Also it appears Ive once again drawn two dinosaurs who never would have met one another lol.
Baryonyx based on the JW Primal Ops Baryonyx render (no idea why it looks so different to the movie one but I like it a lot more haha) and Spinoraptor from JW Evolution (just a more flashy design that uses JP3 Velociraptors and Spinosaurus as the base)
Spinosaurids!! It’s more than likely this is a post of several different Baryonyxes, Spinosauruses, and 1 (One) Suchomimus. But here’s the intended species
Almost all toothed theropod dinosaurs had exactly four teeth on each of their premaxillary bones, the paired bones at the very tip of the upper snout.
Spinosaurus skull by AS | Public domain
The semi-aquatic spinosaurids were an unusual exception to this with six or seven teeth per premaxilla – and one particular member of this lineage seems to have been just a little bit weirder.
Baryonyx walkeri lived during the early Cretaceous, around 130-125 million years ago, in what is now southeast England. About 9m long (~30'), it had distinctive enlarged curving claws on the first fingers of its hands, along with a long narrow snout with a "rosette" at the tip followed by a notch (a shape convergent with the jaws of modern pike conger eels).
And that premaxillary rosette had a strangely asymmetrical arrangement of teeth.
The left side had six teeth, and the right side had seven.
Why? We don't know!
Baryonyx skull material is rare and fragmentary, so it's unclear if this was actually a characteristic feature of the species or if the known asymmetric rosette just represents an unusual individual.