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drskytower [2016-09-18 17:38:02 +0000 UTC]
Woah that is one seriously cool sketch... love the detail!
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spiralofvertigo [2016-08-27 19:27:41 +0000 UTC]
WHOA that's a cool head design!
I really really love the almost horseshoe crab like helmet it is.
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Delta-Hexagon In reply to spiralofvertigo [2016-08-28 17:49:12 +0000 UTC]
thanks!! it kind of does now that you mention it. makes me want to roll with this design and add more horseshoe crab features actually
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Carcharocles58 [2016-08-27 18:17:59 +0000 UTC]
The lower jaw reminds me of Edestus giganteus. If you don't know what that is, google "scissor-toothed shark."
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Delta-Hexagon In reply to Carcharocles58 [2016-08-27 18:27:04 +0000 UTC]
YEAH!! i was inspired by them! they're so cool oh my GOSH i love ancient creatures so much. so much inspiration!
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Carcharocles58 In reply to Delta-Hexagon [2016-08-27 20:17:25 +0000 UTC]
If you think Edestus is interesting, you should check out Helicoprion. We only know it from a few preserved jaws, and they are so bizarre that for decades after the first fossil's discovery we didn't even know it was a jaw. Initially they thought it was an ammonite, but when they realized it wasn't, they tried putting it everywhere on the creature it belonged to (for a long time thought to be a shark, now known to be a ratfish like its cousin Edestus). They put it on the fin, the tail, in the throat heck, one reconstruction by Ray Troll had it as a nose-type thing that could whip out (he quickly found out that it was rigid, and that made him sad--he said it was like a sinister aquatic dumbo). Of course, thanks to the discovery of a nearly-completely fossilzed Ornithoprion we now have a much better idea of what it looked like.
Why was this so hard to figure out? Well, they don't call Helicoprion the whorl-toothed shark for nothing!
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Liqui-Dex [2016-08-27 17:11:34 +0000 UTC]
I bet! Amazing work! Those teeth look nasty in a good way. ewe
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