Been working on some paleoart between commission work since I leave for SVP in 2 weeks and dinosaurs are understandably on the brain
Here's a Riparovenator hunting, inkwash and inkpen on a sketchbook that's probably meant for neither lol
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A dinosaur tooth of an indeterminate baryonychine spinosaurid, likely a Ceratosuchops inferodios or Riparovenator milnerae from the Wessex Formation in the Isle of Wight, England. The spinosaurids from the Wessex Formation were formerly assigned to Baryonyx walkeri which is only described from the Weald Clay Formation.
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ITS TIME
FOR
DINOSAUR MARCH MADNESS 2k23!!!!!!!!!!!!
Starting NEXT WEEK, we begin the ultimate competition:
DMM: RISING STARS
These are ALL dinosaurs that have been discovered in the past five years!!! New friends from old times!!! Including such new fan favorites as Bajadasaurus, Jakapil, Meraxes, and Anachronornis - and that's only four of them!
From the weird to the wonderful, these dinosaurs are here to indicate that just because they were found recently, doesn't mean that they aren't destined to become icons like the names we already know and love. Get ready to learn about some new paleontological excitement - and debate angrily over which ones are better ;)
Round One will go from March 1st through the 7th
Round Two will extend from March 8th through the 14th
Round Three will then go from the 15th to the 21st
Round Four from the 22nd to the 28th
And the FINAL FOUR SHOWDOWN (Ornithischian Vs Sauropodomorph vs Nonavian theropod vs Bird) will occur from March 29th through April 4th!
Thanks to the new tumblr poll feature, reconstructions and mini factfiles for each dinosaur will be on the post with the poll itself! No need to leave tumblr, no personal research, no google quizzes - just rapid learning and immediate voting!
Get ready to vote! Get ready to debate! Get ready... for DINOSAUR MARCH MADNESS!
Round One Matchups under the readmore :)
SAUROPODOMORPHA (and miscellany)
Gnathovorax vs Mbiresaurus
Bagualosaurus vs Issi
Ngwevu vs Kholumolumo
Bagualia vs Amanzia
Lingwulong vs Bajadasaurus
Lavocatisaurus vs Ruixinia
Abditosaurus vs Ibirania
Australotitan vs Mansourasaurus
ORNITHISCHIA
Sanxiasaurus vs Changmiania
Iyuku vs Sinocephale
Bisticeratops vs Crittendenceratops
Kelumapusaura vs Gobihadros
Ajnabia vs Tlatolophus
Jakapil vs Bashanosaurus
Stegouros vs Patagopelta
Spicomellus vs Jinyunpelta
NONAVIAN THEROPODA
Berthasaura vs Vespersaurus
Spectrovenator vs Riparovenator
Asfaltovenator vs Meraxes
Suskityrannus vs Maip
Daurlong vs Natovenator
Bannykus vs Ambopteryx
Caihong vs Hesperornithoides
Falcatakely vs Janavis
NEORNITHES (BIRDS)
Vorombe vs Prodontopteryx
Asteriornis vs Panraogallus
Anachronornis vs Conflicto
Annakacygna vs Nasidytes
Aviraptor vs Cryptogyps
Miosurnia vs Primoptynx
Danielsraptor vs Heracles
Eofringillirostrum vs Heliothraupis
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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
Spinosaurus - Irritator - Suchomimus
Ichthyovenator - Baryonyx - Siamosaurus
Oxalaia - Ceratosuchops - Iberospinus
Not pictured bc it won’t lemme upload 3 more:
Sigilmassasaurus - Riparovenator - Vaillabonaventrix
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Protathlitis cinctorrensis Santos-Cubedo et al., 2023 (new genus and species)
(Tail vertebrae of Protathlitis cinctorrensis, from Santos-Cubedo et al., 2023)
Meaning of name: Protathlitis = champion [in Greek, referencing the centenary of the Villarreal football club, which won the UEFA Europa League in 2021]; cinctorrensis = from Cinctorres
Age: Early Cretaceous (Barremian), about 126–127 million years ago
Where found: Arcillas de Morella Formation, Valencian Community, Spain
How much is known: An upper jaw fragment and five tail vertebrae of one individual, as well as an isolated tooth.
Notes: Protathlitis was a spinosaurid, a group of large theropods with specializations for feeding in aquatic habitats. Along with Vallibonavenatrix and Camarillasaurus, which are also from Spain, Iberospinus from Portugal, and Baryonyx, Ceratosuchops, and Riparovenator from England, Protathlitis adds to the growing understanding that spinosaurids were highly diverse in western Europe during the Early Cretaceous.
Reference: Santos-Cubedo, A., C. de Santisteban, B. Poza, and S. Meseguer. 2023. A new spinosaurid dinosaur species from the Early Cretaceous of Cinctorres (Spain). Scientific Reports 13: 6471. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-33418-2
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it is my sworn duty to assign my moots a dinosaur that fits their vibes. this is Riparovenator!
this is absolutely fantastic. i appreciate this very much
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Dinovember day 18: Riparovenator!
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Baryonyx walkeri
('heavy claw, for William Walker')
Spinosauridae Baryonychinae
In 1983, William Walker, an amateur fossil-hound, found a huge 25 cm claw sticking out of the ground in a clay pit in Surrey, England. The spectacular claw was just the first fossil of the remains of a previously unknown theropod dinosaur, representing ~70% of the skeleton and skull. In 1986, Baryonyx was (re)introduced to the world as a 9.5 m spinosaurid, one of the few piscivorous (fish-eating) dinosaurs ever described, to that point.
Awesomely, just last year, TWO new genera of spinosaurid--Ceratosuchops and Riparovenator--were named from the Wessex Formation of southern England, which means there were at least THREE large spinosaurs competing for food, slinking around the riverbanks that became the Wessex. The Baryonyx found in the Weald Clay Formation had no such competition from other spinosaurs, at least none that we know of.
Upper Weald Clay and Wessex formations, England, UK; possibly Portugal and Spain.
Lower Cretaceous, ~130 -125 Ma.
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Artwork by Robinson Kunz (Teratophoneus) and Rebecca Slater (Paleocolour).
Daily Dino Fact #39
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NEE SPINOSAURIDS NEW SPINOSAURIDS TWO NEW SPINOSAURIDS
here’s the full article!
https://tetzoo.com/blog/2021/9/27/two-new-spinosaurid-dinosaurs-from-the-english-cretaceous
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weird fish boys
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Why The Long Faces?
Yesterday, some new spinosaurs out of the Isle of Wight were formally described/revealed. They are very similar to Baryonyx, but as I understand it enough material was discovered to make the argument that Riparovenator and Ceratosuchops are sufficiently different.
To catch the bandwagon of drawing new dinosaurs in a timely manner, here are some shitposts. Enjoy.
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Help girl I keep thinking about spinosauridae
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Wake up yall new spinosaurids dropped
(Riparovenator Milnerae)
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Round Two: Berthasaura vs Ceratosuchops
Berthasaura leopoldinae
Artwork by @i-draws-dinosaurs, written by @i-draws-dinosaurs
Name meaning: Bertha and Leopoldina’s reptile (in honour of naturalist and women’s rights activist Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz, and first Empress of Brazil and advocate for Brazilian independence Maria Leopoldina)
Time: Uncertain, likely ~121 to 75 million years ago (Aptian to Albian stages of the Early Creataceous) but may be younger
Location: Goio-Erê Formation, Brazil
Theropods are famously carnivorous dinosaurs, but many, many groups of theropods have decided “actually but what if I didn’t” and gone vegetarian, and yet it’s still wild when another one of those pops up every now and then. Even among them though, Berthasaura is special for being the only theropod that seems to have tried to just straight up turn itself into an ornithopod. The long spindly legs, the teeny little arms, and a big head with a toothless beak all come together to create an utterly bizarre little theropod that honestly nobody could have predicted.
Berthasaura is a noasaur, and those of you familiar will at this moment be saying “oh of course it’s a noasaur” because those guys were small ceratosaurs that were basically Theropod Wacky Experimental Phase 1.0. Within this group you’ve got wild sticky-outy teeth, a single weight-bearing toe on each foot in our fellow competitor Vespersaurus, and now multiple instances of beaks evolving independently. Theropods just love to evolve a beak, what can I say? Whatever the hell Berthasaura had going on, it must have been successful because as the basalmost noasaurid currently known its direct lineage has been surviving since at least the Late Jurassic!
Ceratosuchops inferodios
Artwork by @i-draws-dinosaurs, written by @zygodactylus
Name Meaning: Horned Crocodile Faced Hell Heron
Time: ~128 million years ago (Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous)
Location: Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight, England
Say hello to the Hell Heron! Ceratosuchops is one of many new Spinosaurs described recently, showcasing the sheer diversity of this group as well as their much larger spread than previously believed. Ceratosuchops, previously thought to be just Baryonyx, is one of such new taxa that point to the entire group originating in Europe, a piece of their evolutionary puzzle not previously well known. Ceratosuchops was about 8.5 meters long, and had a long crocodile-like skull, with a horn on the top of it (hence its name). As a spinosaur, it would have probably been an aquatic stalker (you know, like a heron) - waiting near bodies of water for food, and snatching it up before it could swim away. Just, the difference between Ceratosuchops and actual herons, well, this was a big heron. It probably wouldn’t have had a sail, though it is possible it may have had a ridge like its close relative Suchomimus. It lived in a heavily river-filled environment, giving it a wide variety of locations to choose from for hunting. Besides a vast diversity of invertebrates, sharks, ray-finned fish, salamanders, lizards, turtles, many kinds of Neosuchians, Plesiosaurs, mammals, and pterosaurs, Ceratosuchops lived alongside other dinosaurs such as Hypsilophodon, Brighstoneus, Iguanodon, Mantellisaurus, Valdosaurus, Polacanthus, Eucamerotus, Oplosaurus, Ornithopsis, Aristosuchus, Calamosaurus, Calamospondylus, Eotyrannus, Neovenator, Ornithodesmus, Yaverlandia, Vectiraptor, Thecocoelurus, and even another spinosaur, Riparovenator!
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✨Paleo Party Stickers - Patch Notes 1 ✨
Added to Cambrian Era Group: Eldonia
Added to Carboniferous Era Group: Megarachne
Added to Jurassic Era Group: Hybodus, Miragaia, Chungkingosaurus, Gigantspinosaurus, Kentrosaurus, Yi Qi
Added to Cretaceous Ornithischians Group: Wuerhosaurus, Chasmosaurus, Medusaceratops, Centrosaurus, Gryphoceratops, Torosaurus, Atlascoposaurus, Shantungosaurus, Olorotian, Zalmoxes
Added to Cretaceous Saurischians Group: Siamosaurus, Ceratosuchops, Iberopsinus, Vaillabonaventrix, Sigilmassasaurus, Riparovenator, Gigantoraptor
Added to Cretaceous Non-Dinosaurs Group: Repenomamus, Sterpodon
Removed from Cretaceous Non-Dinosaurs Group: Hybodus
Added to Neogene Era Group: Chalicotherium, Deinotherium
Added to Quaternary Era Group: Gigantopithecus
Added to Holocene Era Group: Passenger Pigeon, Alligator Gar, Pelican, Horseshoe Crab, Triops
✨📈Upcoming Queue 📈✨
With pride coming up and the pride cats needing video editing, I may not hit all of these but these are my next priority groups!
Thyreophorans: Jakapil (K), Gastonia (K), Akinacephalus (K), Edmontonia (K), Tarchia (K), Gargoyleosaurus (J), Scelidosaurus (J)
Sauropods: Magyarosaurus (K), Xinjiangtitan (K), Saltasaurus (K), Brontosaurus (J)
Theropods: Saurophagnax (J), Monolophosaurus (J), Metricanthosaurus (J), Albertasaurus (K), Struthiomimus (K), Incisivosaurus (K), Atrociraptor (K), Bambiraptor (K), Maip (K)
Pterosaurs: Rhamphorhynchus (J)
Ediacaran: Mawsonites, Spriggina, Dickinsonia, Charnia
Paleozoic misc: Cyclida (C), Goniatites (C), Bulbasaurus (P), Diictodon (P)
Mesozoic misc: Juramaia (J), Thalattoarchon (T), Nothosaurus (T)
Cenozoic misc: Dinictis (Pg), Argentavis (N), Pelagornis (N), Toxodon (N), Nuralagus (N), Teratornis, (Qu), Platygonus (Qu), Tuatara (Living Fossil), Tanuki (Living Fossil)
This was a pretty big update! Next sticker patch notes will probably be the upload of the pride cats! If you have any recommendations or requests for the paleo party, send me a message!
All pride cats have been decided and I'm about to start printing them all for my May shop update on Friday May 3!
Date: April 2, 2024
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