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super quick sketch of the newly-described narrow-snouted chinese tyrannosaur, Qianzhousaurus sinensis

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super quick sketch of a condor-esque tyrannosaur with extra cheek flab 

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Sorry for the lack of activity. I've been totally engrossed in Europa Universalis IV: Conquest of Paradise for like a week. I'm going to do a composition of all of the end-maastrichtian Erdgeheroids (northern carnivorous neoazhdarchids) by monday, hopefully.

in the meantime, here's one such creature, Deinopterus europus. It has a special, odd adaptation that helped members of its clade (though not this one in particular) survive the K-Pg extinction. The wing fingers of highly derived Erdgeheroids are shortened, without wing membrane,and heavily keratinized. These creatures took the wing finger's substantial range of motion and powerful wing extender muscles and co-opted them to make digit IV a deadly, razor sharp, slashing blade.  I'll post three other  Erdgeheroids in the monday compostion. One of them, Klingflügel minimus, uses its blade as a digging tool that allowed it to chase burrowing mammals and dig up roots. Another, Deinopterus hypercarnivorus, has grown to giant size and uses its blade to butcher large prey. The final, Erdgeher tetzooi, has been seen here before. It's more basal and lacks a wingblade. But, it's still an agile hunter that stalks prey in the open savannah.

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Campopterus similigiraffus A late-maastrichtian (65.5 MYA) neoazhdarchid. Campopterus is a browsing and grazing herbivore and frugivore. It evolved to fill the niche left behind by the loss of medium-sized sauropods in North American maastrichtian fauna. Its name means "Giraffe-like prarie wing" Its herbivorous ancestor evolved from Q. wittonandnaishi 69 MYA. It possesses a number of adaptations to browsing life, but was a competent grazer as well. First, it has long limbs and a long, powerful neck, much like its ancestor, which help it reach higher branches. Its wing membrane is highly reduced and basically functionless. Its beak is much shorter that Q. wittonandnaishi's and is more suited for grasping leaves and fruit. Its tongue (not pictured) is more mobile than most pterosaur tongues. It's partially digitigrade for enhanced running away. Its gut is greatly enlarged while its flight muscles are reduced. Its claws are thicker, duller, and more hooflike.  It stands about 6.5 m tall and weighs >1000 kilos.  It was one of the many neoazhdarchids at the K-Pg boundary. Like the other large herbivores of its day, it did not last long after the asteroid hit. Fortunately, neoazhdarchidae had radiated quite successfully by the late Maastrichtian, and had grown to include 15 extant species at the time of the K-Pg extinction, 3 of which survived. Unfortunately, all flying pterosaurs went extinct, as did the non-avian dinosaurs. Most other clades suffered massive losses in diversity. The 3 surviving members of Neoazhdarchidae had modified or reduced their flight anatomy so extensively that re-evolving flight was near impossible. When they re-radiated to dominate the Cenozoic, neoazhdarchids were exclusively terrestrial and semi-aquatic creatures. The skies were left to the birds. Archosaurs continued to dominate the planet, but the two major ornithidiran clades, dinosauria and pterosauria had permanently switched places, the former masters of the sky now ruling the ground, and vice-versa      

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Therapods of North America: Acheroraptor temertyorum A Hell Creek velociraptorine, depicted here in the winter, devouring a juvenile Thescelosaurus I love snow paintings for some reason.

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deinonychus courtship

female looks on, cringing as yet another potential mate makes a goddamn fool of himself

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Coloured it A pair of northern Tyrannosaurs on the hunt in late winter.

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my sapient dino, minglong logicus, fiddling with its prosthetic hand

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Dromaeosaur 3 - Yurgovuchia doellingi

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Deinonychus cornering - Final version

probably the best thing i've ever painted. 

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Velociraptor mongolensis

done from the sketch i did earlier, seen on the top, obviously

2 hrs photoshop

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Ceratosaurus nasicornus Based off of the "dentisulcatus" specimen which may be an adult specimen of nasicornus. Really stubby legs on this one. Based off of Scott Hartman's skeletal. restored with lots of soft tissue around the mouth to obscure the teeth. Kinda my favorite dinosaur at the moment.

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