Into the year 2001. My old landlady commissioned me to paint some sharks, so I chose two Squalicorax and a Cretoxyrhina eating a juvenile Tylosaurus. I later chose to Photoshop the mother tylosaur into the composition.
Balance and poise. It's what curators are best known for ...right?
Today @WitcherClo helped me to fill a museum case with an array of Oxford Clay fossils. Part of a temporary display we're working on to show the journey of prehistoric sea creatures from Jurassic Sea Floor to Museum Store.
Here are the other illustrations from my 2000 Manchester Museum project. They were all painted to fit on the design company's A3 scanner and printed about the size of a door, so all the imperfections were clear to see.
Today volunteer @WitcherClo is arranging an ichthyosaur in our fossil collection. There's a lot of tiny fragments for such a large skeleton, but enough is preserved to see the animal start to take shape.
Ranger Sarah has arrived at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in Nebraska. Known for a large number of well-preserved Miocene fossils. Fossils from the Harrison Formation and Anderson Ranch Formation, which date to the Arikareean in the North American land mammal classification, about 20 to 16.3 million years ago, are among some of the best specimens of Miocene mammals.
Ranger Sarah at strange corkscrew that was once know as the Devil's Corkscrew. The Daemonelix is the corkscrew entrance to the Palocaster's den. Palocasters were small ancient beavers that behaved like modern prairie dogs.
— at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument.
Niobrara River was to small to carve this valley area. River Terraces found in the area indicated that a larger, ancient river once flowed through forming the valley.
— at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument.
Behold! A weird ammonite!
(Based on a comment on the forbidden platform that my bennettitalean cone yesterday looked like a stylised ammonite) #paleoart#ammonite#paleontology
Happy #FossilFriday! This is the partial pelvis of Supersaurus, just one of many sauropods living in the Morrison Formation during the Late Jurassic. It was certainly among the largest, with estimates putting its body length at easily over 100 feet. (1/2) #paleontology#dinosaur#science
Guidraco venator (gway-dray-koh ven-ate-or) was an #anhanguerid#pterosaur from the early Cretaceous of China. Its name refers to the Chinese term “gui”, meaning “ghost”, and the Latin word “draco” meaning “dragon”. Its specific name is the Latin word for “hunter”.
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This dinosaur (a sauropod) made a very tight turn to cross its own trackway! What it had in mind, we have no idea. The site is in Colorado, at an elevation of 2835 m in the Rocky Mountains (which did not yet exist during the Late Jurassic when these tracks were made).
We know of one other loop-shaped sauropod trackway, from China. Unfortunately, it was on a vertical quarry wall that has collapsed.
Today's random portfolio artwork is "Bait Ball," an old painting from 2009. It was created with ye olde acrylic paint and paintbrush, and airbrush for the background. Originally created for the Museum of Jurassic Marine Life, UK, but it has been all over the place these past 14 years or so.
Check out these swim tracks attributed to a prosauropod for #FossilFriday! Four-toed Sarahsaurus would have lived nearby during the Early Jurassic, and it could have swam through shallow rivers connected to an ever-shrinking lake, Lake Whitmore. (1/2) #paleontology#ichnology#dinosaur#science
Abstract: “The Middle Jurassic was a critical time in pterosaur evolution, witnessing the appearance of major morphological innovations that underpinned successive radiations by rhamphorhynchids, basally branching monofenestratans, and pterodactyloids. Frustratingly, this interval is particularly sparsely sampled, with a...
Sorry, I keep forgetting to toot my stuff. This is what I've been stressing about lately: a horrible goosecow by the name of Edmontosaurus regalis. #3D#paleontology
Latest research analysis lend further physical evidence modern humans and neanderthals lived side by side and interbred for several thousand years before neanderthals became extinct.
A new pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Skye, Scotland and the early diversification of flying reptiles (doi.org)
Abstract: “The Middle Jurassic was a critical time in pterosaur evolution, witnessing the appearance of major morphological innovations that underpinned successive radiations by rhamphorhynchids, basally branching monofenestratans, and pterodactyloids. Frustratingly, this interval is particularly sparsely sampled, with a...