#ceratopsians

[sketchy-as-fork]

A bilateral gynandromorph ceratopsian, whose asymmetrical horns appear to complete a thin crescent moon

#art #digital art #dinosaurs #painting #procreate #illustration #paleontology #ceratopsians

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

#dinosaurs #ceratopsians #palaeoblr #prehistoric life #what's this dinosaur #polls

[antiqueanimals]

Artist's concept of a Triceratops herd. Painting by Mary Butler. From Terra: The Member's Magazine of The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Volume 19, No. 3. Winter 1981.

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#prehistoric #dinosaurs #ceratopsians #triceratops #Mary Butler

[saritawolff]

A Patreon request for rome.and.stuff (Instagram) - Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum… that I went a bit overboard with lol. I’ve been waiting for an excuse to draw my favorite ceratopsian, and to digitally adapt my old Pachy marker drawing design.

So! Pachyrhinosaurus! As seen above, there were three known species of Pachyrhinosaurus, living in different locations and eras in Late Cretaceous North America.

The oldest, P. lakustai, was native to the Wapiti Formation of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. It’s known for the extra spikes it has at the center of its frill.

The slightly younger P. canadensis was native to the lower Horseshoe Canyon Formation and the St. Mary River Formation of Alberta and northwestern Montana. It was the largest of the three.

The youngest, P. perotorum, was native to the Prince Creek Formation of Alaska. As this ceratopsid seemingly stayed put during the long, dark, cold Alaskan Winters, it likely had adaptations for keeping warm.

The depiction of a “woolly” Pachyrhinosaurus was first popularized by Mark Witton as a speculative work, but the trope has prevailed. While many paleontologists find a heavy feather covering on a centrosaurine to be highly unlikely, and maintain that the animal’s size and homeothermy would have kept it warm enough, we still have no skin impressions to suggest that P. perotorum was fully scaly. So a feather coating is not completely out of the question (though it is unlikely). Still, I love the look of a woolly Pachyrhinosaurus and how it challenges our previous conceptions of non-avian dinosaurs. Stranger things exist in nature. I had to include a “woolly” option, especially since I already use the guy as my avatar on my paleo Instagram account, SaritaPaleo.

Pachyrhinosaurus was particularly unique in that it seemingly traded off something that had previously worked for other ceratopsians, horns, for a large nasal boss instead. For Pachyrhinosaurus, a battering ram worked better than a sword.

It was herbivorous, using its strong cheek teeth to chew tough, fibrous plants. Perhaps during the dark and cold Winters, P. perotorum would have also dug for roots or even scavenged carcasses. At any rate, from observations of their unusually conspicuous growth banding, it appears growth for P. perotorum would have been stunted during the harsh Winter, but was extremely rapid in the warmer months, an adaptation for the Alaskan climate.

The tundra of the Prince Creek Formation housed a surprising amount of diversity. Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum would have lived alongside smaller ceratopsians like Leptoceratopsids, as well as other ornithischians like the pachycephalosaurine Alaskacephale and the hadrosaurid Edmontosaurus. Theropods such as Dromaeosaurus and Saurornitholestes, as well as a yet unidentified giant Troodontid, lived here as well. P. perotorum’s main predator would have been the tyrannosaur Nanuqsaurus. Small mammals were also somewhat common here, such as Cimolodon, Gypsonictops, Sikuomys, Unnuakomys, and an indeterminate marsupial.

(Btw, the request tier for Patreon starts at only $5 a month. 😉 Link is pinned at the top of my blog.)

#my art #SaritaDrawsPalaeo #Pachyrhinosaurus #Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum #Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai #Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis #Centrosaurines #ceratopsians #ceratopsids #ornithischians #dinosaurs #archosaurs #archosauromorphs #reptiles #Prince Creek Formation #Wapiti Formation #Horseshoe Canyon Formation #St. Mary River Formation #Late Cretaceous #Canada #United States of America

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

one thing that annoys me about jw is that it popularized the idea of ceratopsians with holes in their frills

those were ripped right off patchi the pachyrhinosaurus from walking with dinosaurs 3d

who specifically looks that way because of an *injury*

New Jurassic World dinosaur designs have had some good ones in there but oh man have there been some dire misses and the Sinoceratops is absolutely one of them

It's just,,,, ugly. The body is inexplicably shaped almost exactly like a rhinoceros which isn't even an issue that other JW ceratopsians have as much as this guy. The head is misshapen, the feet are wrong, the tail is huge for some reason. And yeah, The Frill Holes, which become even weirder given that the Sinoceratops seems to have replaced a previous design for Pachyrhinosaurus that didn't even have the frill holes?

Overall I just find it an unpleasant and uninteresting-looking animal. Which like, as far as I'm aware that seems to be a consensus even among JW fans so nobody's really big into this guy.

Ripping into bad JW designs is kinda old hat at this point and it just makes me grumpy so I'm not gonna do any more of them, but the Sinoceratops really does epitomise the laziness at the centre of the worst designs in the series. Unlike something like the Therizinosaurus or Oviraptor, it's clearly just made by people who didn't know what ceratopsians look like and didn't care enough to figure it out. Which is basically inevitable in a big dinosaur movie but it's still disappointing.

As such, I have drawn my own Sinoceratops! Note the smaller frill, bigger head, short tail and non-rhino-looking body and legs and feet!

Also amusingly Jurassic World Evolution later introduced an official Pachyrhinosaurus and they look way nicer!

#dinosaurs #paleoart #paleontology #Sinoceratops #ceratopsians #Jurassic World #palaeoblr

[bornulhuu]

Wacky Evo chart but with dinos only

#creature design #creature #dinosaurs #colorful critters #colorful dinosaurs #speculative evolution #evolutionary tree #sauropods #ceratopsians #spinosaurus #bornulhu art

[makairodonx]

Keiko Yamamoto walks down a trail that leads into dense forest with a juvenile and an adult Torosaurus latus.

#paleoart #dinosaurs #dinosaur #torosaurus #ceretopsian #ceratopsidae #ceratopsians #original fantasy #original characters #original charater art #original character #original female character #original female characters #keiko yamamoto #sorceress #sorceress keiko #fantasy #fantasy artwork #fantasy art #fantasy character art #fantasy character #fantasy characters

[monthgirl]

#triceratops #ceratopsians #prehistoric animals #paleoblr #paleoart #paleo #paleontology #dinosaurs #dino art #nature #art #jurassic period #butterflies #prehistoric

[fishsfailureson]

Gremlin slobodorum

#art #my art #digital art #sketches #paleoart #paleontology #palaeoblr #archosaurs #dinosaurs #ornithischians #ceratopsians #leptoceratopsians #gremlin slobodorum

[pocoslip]

My Ceratopsians Collection is Slowly Growing in Anticipation for the New Habitat Defender Triceratops and I wish I didn't skip on the Protoceratops

#jurassic park #nasutoceratops #triceratops #zuniceratops #pentaceratops #styracosaurus #jurassic world #jurassic world fallen kingdom #einiosaurus #sinoceratops #jurassic world dominion #dinosaurs #ceratopsians #jurassic world mattel #jurassic park mattel #dinosaur toys #toy photography #paleontology #mattel #ceratopsian

[edgescience]

Anyone know what this Triceratops skull is? what specimen it might be based on? seems relatively small. It was uploaded to wikipedia commons by Tylwyth Eldar. I'm thinking it's in some french museum.

#paleontology #fossils #dinosaurs #scicomm #dinosaur #science #biology #nature #triceratops #ceratopsians #unnamed specimens #museum specimens

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

#dinosaurs #ceratopsians #palaeoblr #what is this dinosaur #polls

[antiqueanimals]

Anchiceratops ornatus, Hypacrosaurus altispinus and Albertosaurus libratus by Gregory Paul. From Terra: The Member's Magazine of The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Volume 24, No. 3. January/February 1986.

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#prehistoric #dinosaurs #ceratopsians #anchiceratops #hadrosaurs #hypacrosaurus #theropods #albertosaurus #Gregory Paul

[saritawolff]

#Archovember Day 27 - Udanoceratops tschizhovi

The leptoceratopsids are known for being small, pig-sized Late Cretaceous ceratopsians reminiscent of their more basal ancestors. But Udanoceratops tschizhovi took things to the next level, growing to the size of a hippopotamus, with the head and jaw strength to match. While assumed to be a herbivore like other ceratopsians, little is known about plants that grew in the Gobi Desert at the time of the Cretaceous, so it is unclear what types of plants it would have eaten. Its sharp beak, powerful jaws, and shearing/crushing teeth suggest a diet of relatively tough plants. Like other ceratopsians, particularly leptoceratopsians, Udanoceratops could have also opportunistically scavenged carcasses, nests, or even small mammals and young/weak dinosaurs for extra protein in its desert environment.

In the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia, Udanoceratops would have lived alongside the smaller, more numerous protoceratopsians Protoceratops and Bagaceratops. This was a mostly barren landscape, likely dotted by oases and arroyos that would have attracted smaller animals like nanhsiungchelyid land turtles, lizards like Gobiderma, frogs like Gobiates, crocodylomorphs like Artzosuchus, small mammals like Asiatherium and Mangasbaatar, and small theropods like the oviraptorosaur Avimimus. Udanoceratops was the largest animal around. Thus far, no predators large enough to take on an adult Udanoceratops have been found in its locality. The dromaeosaur Velociraptor could have snatched a baby Udanoceratops when the opportunity arose, but it would then risk the ire of this giant desert hippo with a staple remover for a head.

#my art #SaritaDrawsPalaeo #Udanoceratops tschizhovi #Udanoceratops #Leptoceratopsid #neoceratopsians #ceratopsians #ornithischians #dinosaurs #archosaurs #archosauromorphs #reptiles #Archovember #Archovember2023

[fawnrats]

i wanted to draw peater (my primeval age dino) as a juvenile, subadult & adult for reference purposes! this took quite a while but it is finally DONE ⭐w⭐

i left the subadult version unshaded on purpose so i could more easily color pick hiz still developing dimorphic markings. it looks kijda eeird next to the shaded juvie & adult but oh well! the shading makes the juvie & adult look better so i don't regret it.

anyway this was my first time drswing a fullbody of a styrwcosaurus!! it was fun :D & a bit frustrating at times (i struggled a lot with the subadult for some reason q.q) but i feel like i'm getting a better grasp of yow to draw ceratopdians!! & i'm prettyvhappy wity how it turned out c:

i'm sure xcited to finally do some quests after this!! it might still be a couple weeks before i can get started on thay but i'm determined to finslly do some even if it's nkt at the forefrojt of my mind anymore by the time i'm rrady!

i partially drew this in mddibang! i tried medibang once a somewhat long time agl & quit pretty quickly out of confusion & frustration, but ddcided to give it ankther tty tkday & i think i like it better than ibis paint x! i'm probably gonna be drawingnmostly in firealpaca & medibang now but i might try drawing some comics back in ibis paint x some time.

i don't think I've shared it on this blog before but i'm an aspiring comic creator! i have made absolutely 0 comics as o posting this but i've been plannjng some stories out for the past year & i'll get around to finally making some test comics some timeee

#primeval age #styracosaurus #ceratopsidae #non-avian dinosaurs #ceratopsians #dinosaurs #digital art #feral art #feral oc #paleoart #my art #fawnrats art #animalia #animals

[that-dinopunk-guy]

Some increasingly absurd fake ceratopsids, as well as a rough concept for a carnivorous protoceratopsid that I never did anything with.

All of these are from 2006. I was very productive that year.

#my art #dinosaurs #ceratopsians #paleoart #speculative evolution #speculative biology #speculative zoology #dinopunk