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Eurwentala — The Dinosaur Eater
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Published: 2020-02-15 22:14:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 9112; Favourites: 432; Downloads: 0
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Repenomamus giganticus, one of the largest mammals of the Mesozoic era, is marking her territory with claws and scents. It's a forest of ancient ginkgoes, 125 million years ago somewhere in the vast area that's now northern China.This animal was an early true mammal, more closely related to marsupials and placentals than to the monotremes, but still a very distant cousin to anything living today. The largest specimens are estimated to have weighed 12 to 14 kg - absolutely massive by Mesozoic mammal standards, and around the size of a large female wolverine. Repenomamus is known to have eaten dinosaurs: one specimen was found with bones of a juvenile Psittacosaurus in its stomach.
This was a painting practise that I got rather fond of. Entirely digital, made with Procreate.
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I love this interpretation-almost every single other makes it badger or Tasmanian devil like, but you made it more weasel like. I love that, I love differences
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Oh wow, we have learnt so much about mesozoic mammals in the last few years. I rememer being a kid and how the books always said mammals remained small and insignificant until the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.
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An interesting take on this animal. Most of the time it's reconstructed rather badger-like. I only know Mark Witton's take on it looking different from that trend.
It looks really nice, that pose gives quite some motion to it.
What are the plants covering the ground?
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More depictions should make it look like a hyena or give it an inverse platypus colour scheme.
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Much larger than an opossum.
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Wasn't R. robustus which ate those Psittacosaurus babies?
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Beautiful depiction! The textures are amazing.
Also, I very much want to hug it. It looks so soft. Fluffy. It might eat me, but that hasn't stopped me from wanting to hug anything before.
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That's awesome. Mammals are underrepresented in the Mesozoic era
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We were also THIS close to getting dryolestoids and gondwanatheres, but they died out due to South America's cooling climate.
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And far from being the only one, given other gobiconodons and tooth marks on troodontids by deltatheroids.
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Deltatheridium was a fairly large weasel-like animal, actually, while the prey was a chicken sized troodontid. The tooth marks also appear to have healed, implying it was a deadly attack but one where the victim survived.
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Indeed. The North American deltatheroid Nanocuris was even larger, hopefully more remains show up.
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