Results from the #paleostream!
Duonychus, Caraxes (a wish), Hyposaurus and Rhothonemys.
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We are approaching the maximum of images you can post here so I thought it was time I make a little showcase of all the formation pieces we covered so far on the streams.
For people who don't know: for several months now I draw one formation or fossil locality every Saturday. The next place we visit is chosen by a wheel of names, which we also constantly fill up again when a new formation is picked.
I try to make it as interesting as possible in my composition and choice of animals and I can tell you this series has been a great training when it comes to constructing these, how I call them, Menageries.
I have to thank a team of friends and colleagues who help behind the scenes with research, creation of size charts and conversation partners when it comes to deciding on the compositions of these pieces. Their help has been invaluable!
Can we get around the 30 image limit by reposting with a new image to the thread each week? We shall see. Mazon Creek now, Toolebuc formation this Saturday.
Adding Toolebuc formation
Adding the Cleveland Shale of the Ohio formation.
Adding the Consthum quarry
Adding the Ermaying formation
Adding the Bahariya formation!
Adding the Whitewater formation!
Btw. this was the last formation piece of the year, I would love to know what has been your favorite so far!
Adding the Bugti hills member of the Chitarwata formation.
First formation stream of the year!
Adding the Gigantopithecus fauna of Pleistocene China!
Adding the Hell Creek formation from the latest Cretaceous of North America! Our 1 year anniversary for this series!
Adding the Rio do Rasto formation from the middle Permian of Brazil!
Adding the Corral Bluffs from the early Paleocene of the Denver formation.
Adding the Fossil Butte member of the Eocene Green River formation.
Adding the Soom Shale, member of the Cederberg Formation in South Africa. A late Ordovician world of oddities.
Adding the Miocene St. Bathans fauna from New Zealand! A spark of life after this fauna island nearly drowned in the Oligocene!
Adding the Candeleros formation from the Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Argentina. Home of Giganotosaurus and many sauropods.
Adding the Rhynie Chert locality from the Devonian of Scotland. A geothermal wetland preserving early landplants and animals.
Adding the Ischigualasto formation from the Upper Triassic of Argentina, known for some of the oldest dinosaurs.
Adding Emu Bay Shale, from the Cambrian of Australia. No. 50 in this series!
Result from yesterdays Emu Bay Shale #paleostream! This was our first Cambrian formation piece AND No. 50 in this series! This place had some interesting challenges attached to it and it's fauna has some fascinating members.
Over the last few decades we have begun to get a better idea of the diversity of radiodonts and the Emu Bay Shale shows us parts of it. In this case we have two simolarly sized anomalicarids. Anomalocaris itself and similarly sized, but filter feeding Echidnacaris.
The tricky parts come in when we look at depositional environment. As this sketch by Pregistorica (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4jvyoxo2m7gkd6ip7z2b6lq5) shows: we have animals living in the shallows, the water collum and in a deep basin BUT, they were all preserved at the bottom of this basin. Which begs the question where...
...to best put the camera for this piece. Eventually we settled for a position just below the beginning of the slope, trying to max the amount of species but also keeping the composition interesting. Size chart this week came from discord users African Mud Turtle and F0ssilized.
Results from the Flocking #paleostream!
Brachycrus (from last week)
Terminonatator, Armadillosuchus, Suminia and Kongonaphon.
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a guide to the exoparia
the presence of the exoparia doesnt actually change much for the way we reconstruct most dinosaur groups, however, it changes some minor things for two of the most well known dinosaur groups that should be taken into account:
ive made a guide to the exoparia because there seems to be a lot of confusion about it
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AAAAAND here we go, get ready THIS SATURDAY! I'm so sorry this took so long but forward moving deadlines on my side made my schedule exceptionally busy! Non the less we were able to put once again PALEOSTREAMCON for you together! We are very existed for all the talks and discussions! There will be also some announcements and reveals happening during the event so peak your eyes pealed and ears open!
PaleostreamCon is a small online event/conference by and for the paleostream community, but everyone is invited to join. Talks by professional paleontologists, paleoartists and science communicators are combined with round-table discussions and other activities like workshops and games.
All talks are hosted on Discord and Twitch
For people who want to join on Discord here also a link t our server: https://discord.gg/mprEV2xd And if you wanna know how these things go: we have playlists on YT
We have a wide variety of topics! More than just dinosaurs for sure ;)
We start in half an hour!
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AAAAAND here we go, get ready THIS SATURDAY! I'm so sorry this took so long but forward moving deadlines on my side made my schedule exceptionally busy! Non the less we were able to put once again PALEOSTREAMCON for you together! We are very existed for all the talks and discussions! There will be also some announcements and reveals happening during the event so peak your eyes pealed and ears open!
PaleostreamCon is a small online event/conference by and for the paleostream community, but everyone is invited to join. Talks by professional paleontologists, paleoartists and science communicators are combined with round-table discussions and other activities like workshops and games.
All talks are hosted on Discord and Twitch
For people who want to join on Discord here also a link t our server: https://discord.gg/mprEV2xd And if you wanna know how these things go: we have playlists on YT
We have a wide variety of topics! More than just dinosaurs for sure ;)
AAAAAND here we go, get ready THIS SATURDAY! I'm so sorry this took so long but forward moving deadlines on my side made my schedule exceptionally busy! Non the less we were able to put once again PALEOSTREAMCON for you together! We are very existed for all the talks and discussions! There will be also some announcements and reveals happening during the event so peak your eyes pealed and ears open!
PaleostreamCon is a small online event/conference by and for the paleostream community, but everyone is invited to join. Talks by professional paleontologists, paleoartists and science communicators are combined with round-table discussions and other activities like workshops and games.
All talks are hosted on Discord and Twitch
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A double-page spread from my new book (När dinosaurierna tog över, Idus förlag) depicting a scene from South Africa during the Early Jurassic. A group of heterodontosaurids (Abrictosaurus consors) being chased by a theropod (Dracovenator regenti) seek shelter behind a huge lessemsaurid (Ledumahadi mafube).