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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social

result of this week's special 2 hour #Paleostream flocking! for this flocking we spent 2 hours on just Spicomellus, however, i spent an additional 6 hours on my piece #paleoart #sciart #scicomm #dinosaur

on a sunny and slightly windy day in Jurassic Morocco, a Spicomellus grazes on the abundant macroalgae by the shoreline. the warm sun and calm water trigger a mass hatching event of thalattosuchians who scramble into the seawater around the Spicomellus, two Scheenstia look on at the oncoming swarm. the Spicomellus is unfazed and continues grazing Spicomellus is a surprisingly derived (unexpected) ankylosaur (large herbivorous armoured dinosaurs) known primarily from osteoderms, these ostoederms are special and unlike any other ankylosaur osteoderms as they fuse to the ribs during ontogeny, there's also evidence it had a tail weapon based on its tail vertebrae, but no such weapon has been identified yet. it would've had incredibly large spikes all over its body Scheenstia is a genus of durophagous fish distantly related to alligator gars. it was very tall and thin in profile thalattosuchians are a group of fully marine crocodile relatives with fish-like tails and tiny forelimbs
aug 31, 2025, 1:14 am • 104 25

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RefinedPlat @refinedplat.bsky.social

Ohhh those are thalattosuchians I thought those were reflections of small flying creatures above the water

aug 31, 2025, 4:24 am • 2 0 • view
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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social

yeah would render the reflections differently

aug 31, 2025, 6:03 am • 0 0 • view
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RefinedPlat @refinedplat.bsky.social

SPIKEY BOY

aug 31, 2025, 1:16 am • 1 0 • view
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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social

EXACTLY!!! we dont have much from them, but we know for sure they were spikey

aug 31, 2025, 3:25 am • 1 0 • view
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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social

Oh wow, this is super cool!

aug 31, 2025, 1:19 am • 1 0 • view
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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social

thank you!

aug 31, 2025, 3:25 am • 1 0 • view
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Beanie monster @og-beanie.bsky.social

Spicy may be the main attraction - but those sunbeaten surface waves... 🥰

aug 31, 2025, 6:42 am • 1 0 • view
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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social

honestly, every time i render water it turns into the main attraction to me, genuinely one of the most fun materials to render second only to keratin sheaths

aug 31, 2025, 7:07 am • 1 0 • view
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Jeri Berlin @jerbear56.bsky.social

📌

aug 31, 2025, 3:37 am • 2 0 • view
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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social

Oh yeah, I forgot to ask: what're the little sea critters? Also the definition and depth on those spines is stunning!

aug 31, 2025, 2:29 am • 2 0 • view
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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social

alt text has the answers most of the time :P speculative thalattosuchians, it's a mass hatching event!

aug 31, 2025, 3:26 am • 1 0 • view
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Anthony Maltese of the Badlands @mosasaurologist.bsky.social

Before I embiggened , I thought that was a pic of a caterpillar

aug 31, 2025, 3:08 am • 4 0 • view
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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social

it's so funny you say this cause the notification i got right before this is someone else making a joke about dinosaurs being bugs lmfao

aug 31, 2025, 3:28 am • 4 0 • view