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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · Jul 8

Happy #PortfolioDay!!!

I'm an Australian palaeoartist and palaeontology student who specialises in drawing a wide variety of animals from fish to ammonites to pterosaurs

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an Echidnacaris ventures into shallow water. however, it's chosen a bad time to as the shoreline is currently experiencing a red tide, a rise in excess nutrients has caused dinoflagellates and other kinds of algae to grow out of control, staining the water a deep orange and releasing harmful toxins

Echidnacaris is a kind of radiodont, very primitive and extinct marine arthropods that swam using rows of fins on the sides of their body. Echidnacaris was a filter-feeding radiodont, using its bristled feeding apendages to capture small prey to bring to its mouth. it's especially weird compared to other radiodonts as it had eyes that werent on stalks and had eyebrow sclerites to block overhead sunlight, implying it lived in a very well lit environment

a courting pair of female Terminonatator bond by cooperating in processing their latest kill. they rip into the juvenile mosasaur with their large teeth, ripping it apart by holding on to either end and pulling away with their muscular necks and flippers. the dappled light of the surface can be seen behind them

Terminonatator is an extremely pin headed elasmosaur, long necked marine reptiles with four powerful flippers that they used to propel themselves through the water. Terminonatator had a very long neck and was most likely macropredatory based on the size of its teeth

Dsungaripterus and Noripterus prepare for their respective incoming breeding seasons, however the number of Noripterus on this stretch of the beach is particularly dense this year. two hormonal male Dsungaripterus have come a little early, but are unphased by the presence of their smaller relatives however, and are sizing each other up, ready to duke it out for the best spot to display to females on the beach.

Noripterus and Dsungaripterus are both dsungaripterid pterosaurs, flying reptiles that fly with wings supported by a thin membrane that used blunt teeth to crush hard shelled prey and pointed beaks to pry and dig them out. Dsungaripterus stood at about 1.5 metres tall while Noripterus was only about 60 centimetres tall

a Bothriolepis kicks up sediment in a shallow freshwater waterbody looking for food. the water is stained orange with tannins, blurry greenery can be seen through the surface of the water

Bothriolepis is a small armoured fish that looked and fed somewhat like a pleco, being very heavily armoured and box shaped

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 3d

how ive been wearing my hair recently

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 3d

#sciart boost!

Heitor Miguel @paleomiguel.bsky.social · 3d

#Trilobites of the Pimenteira Formation, Devonian Brazil.
#paleoart #sciart

Vintage illustration of numbered trilobites of various sizes, their fossils, and a short description on the bottom.

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 5d

really? from what i can see in Dunkleosteus it's just a single opening, is this 3d model missing elements? (link to 3d model: sketchfab.com/3d-models/cm...)

Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 6d

i think im still gonna remain a biiiiiit skeptical, cause there are fish out there who only show one opening on the skull but have two openings with soft tissue applied

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 6d

it must be quite interesting to look at from an outsider's perspective lmao

Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 6d

gotcha gotcha i see, i was aware of the jawless fish only having one but i wasnt aware of Xiushanosteus having two, do you have a skull diagram i could take a look at? all skulls i could find online have that area obscured

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 6d

great way of putting it lol

Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 6d

why do you say not all placoderms? via parsimony it makes sense to assume all had them does it not?

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 6d

when will people with ai generated profile pictures understand that i dont want to interact with them nor do i want their interactions

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 6d

it's not even just dunkleosteids, if you look at virtually all fish you'll find that they have four nostrils

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Emi the Chordate @emichordate.bsky.social · 7d

Great exhibition, closing soon ! A lot of effort was put into this project ! Here are some pictures from my visit some time ago :

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 7d

i felt like drawing a placoderm last month, so i drew Gorgonichthys. it's been sitting in my wips pile for ages now, not tooo happy with this but that's the nature of art i guess :]

#placoderm #fishart #sciart

a Gorgonichthys has caught and bitten a Cladoselache, blood and flesh escapes from the open wound, including out of the Gorgonichthys' spiracle and gill slit. one Kentuchia takes a bite from the carcass while two others swim around the Gorgonichthys. two iceburgs float along in the backround, dropstones can be seen falling out of the one closest to the camera

Gorgonichthys is a large placoderm (jawed armoured fish) with a boxy head which lived in the same formation as Dunkleosteus.

Cladoselache is a cartilaginous fish that appeared like a shark with a flat boxy head, males had a curved spine on their primary dorsal fin, while females lacked them.

Kentuchia is an early rayfinned fish that had very forward placed eyes, giving it a very silly appearance

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 7d

i have my own ideas but i leave it up to viewer interpretation this time

Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 7d

for real yeah!

Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 10d

"Defluo"

I've been meaning to get into painting more realistic humans, and i also felt like drawing a Neanderthal, so here we are

#sciart #paleoart #paleohuman #neanderthal #painting #digitalpainting #alttext

a Neanderthal woman faces toward the right of the canvas with a melancholic expression, tears running down her eyes. a large fresh cut can be seen on her left brow, paired with a large bruise on her left cheek and eye. from the left side of the canvas comes a warm but dull yellow light, while the right is illuminated by a warm but dull orange light.

behind her to the canvas' left are four spears, one with a bone tool attached to it, some are fading. to the canvas' right are variously shaped shell tools that are also fading. behind all of this are various colours of Neanderthal handprint art in various shades of orange, almost appearing like a fire around her.

both behind and infront of her are white abstract streaks that almost appear to be engulfing both her and the rest of the canvas

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 16d

Microraptorian sketch i made in class the other day

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Heitor Miguel @paleomiguel.bsky.social · 19d

Monstrocrinus incognatus, a Middle #Devonian #crinoid from #Brazil, Europe and (ambiguously) Algeria. Their characteristic spines are hypothesised to have server anti-predation, hydrodynamics and ✨Aesthetic✨purposes...

...I may or may not have made one of those up.
#Sciart #Paleoart

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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 19d

This summer I had the pleasure of collaborating w/ researchers Naiomi Cookson & Arjan Mann (Field Museum) to reconstruct a flesh-model bust of Cyonosaurus. After getting to meet the holotype, I started roughing out the skull armature. More of the process to follow!
#paleoart

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 29d

i didnt steal nu'n 😤

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Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · 29d

Jormungandr walhallaensis

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · Sep 7

what did i do lmao?

Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · Sep 6

yes yes, i wanted a sorta delinquent vibe :P

Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · Sep 6

more stylised paleoart concepts! this time it's Bananogmius, thanks to @3lfig.bsky.social for suggesting this taxon

#fishart #stylisedart #paleoart #sketch #conceptart

a stylised Bananogmius, it leers to the left of the image

Bananogmius is a fish that's part of an extinct group of fish which had large conspicuous dorsal fins that ran all the way down their backs its teeth suggest it ate hard shelled organisms like molluscs but we also have fossils of them swallowing smaller bait fish headfirst

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · Sep 5

still doesnt work for me, maybe it's something they're rolling out for a select few users only???

Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · Sep 5

that's why imo it's so crucial to understand anatomy first before implementing stylisation, a lot of the choices here could only come from someone at least somewhat familiar with fish anatomy