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Tonight I decided to take part in Joschua Knüppe's paleostream for the first time. We drew several taxa that were selected by vote before. Unfortunately, I did not meet the time and managed to make only three animals, but now I have drawn the fourth and corrected the rest.

The first is the giant scorpion Brontoscorpio anglicus from the late Silurian of England. Known from the film "Walking with monsters: life before the dinosaurs", this taxon is actually only known for the pedipalp part. For this reason, my reconstruction is speculative and based on the closely related Eramoscorpius brucensis.

The next is Basilosaurus cetoides, an early whale from the basilosaurid family. I have long wanted to portray it. Basilosaurus had unusual proportions: a very small head and a very long body, and probably swam like a eel, but vertically. This predator hunted large fish (including sharks) in the shallow waters of present-day North Africa.

Next comes Nigersaurus taqueti, an unusual rebbachisaurid from the early Cretaceous of Niger. It is famous for its specialized square-shaped jaws, full of frequently changing teeth. Presumably, Nigersaurus fed on low vegetation (here it eats horsetails). It was quite small for a sauropod, only 9 meters in length, of which the tail took up a significant portion.

Finally, Navajoceratops sullivani, most recently described (along with Terminocavus sealeyi: peerj.com/articles/9251/?fbcli… ) chasmosaurine. Unfortunately, only part of the collar is known from it, but this taxon represents part of the chronological line from Pentaceratops sternbergi to Anchiceratops ornatus. The reconstruction is based on photographs in paper, a magnificent work by Ville Sinkkonen from a press release, and a Pentaceratops skeleton (postcranium).

That's it for today. I hope I will still be able to draw on paleostreams.

Blue ballpoint pen, 2020.

Description

Tonight I decided to take part in Joschua Knüppe's paleostream for the first time. We drew several taxa that were selected by vote before. Unfortunately, I did not meet the time and managed to make only three animals, but now I have drawn the fourth and corrected the rest.

The first is the giant scorpion Brontoscorpio anglicus from the late Silurian of England. Known from the film "Walking with monsters: life before the dinosaurs", this taxon is actually only known for the pedipalp part. For this reason, my reconstruction is speculative and based on the closely related Eramoscorpius brucensis.

The next is Basilosaurus cetoides, an early whale from the basilosaurid family. I have long wanted to portray it. Basilosaurus had unusual proportions: a very small head and a very long body, and probably swam like a eel, but vertically. This predator hunted large fish (including sharks) in the shallow waters of present-day North Africa.

Next comes Nigersaurus taqueti, an unusual rebbachisaurid from the early Cretaceous of Niger. It is famous for its specialized square-shaped jaws, full of frequently changing teeth. Presumably, Nigersaurus fed on low vegetation (here it eats horsetails). It was quite small for a sauropod, only 9 meters in length, of which the tail took up a significant portion.

Finally, Navajoceratops sullivani, most recently described (along with Terminocavus sealeyi: peerj.com/articles/9251/?fbcli… ) chasmosaurine. Unfortunately, only part of the collar is known from it, but this taxon represents part of the chronological line from Pentaceratops sternbergi to Anchiceratops ornatus. The reconstruction is based on photographs in paper, a magnificent work by Ville Sinkkonen from a press release, and a Pentaceratops skeleton (postcranium).

That's it for today. I hope I will still be able to draw on paleostreams.

Blue ballpoint pen, 2020.