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3/5 fleshed Royal Ontario Museum fossils
Plateosaurus engelhardti was a late Triassic prosauropod, ancestor to the giant elephantine titanosaurs of the Cretaceous. The evolutionary split from the heavily feathered theropods was recent, so I’ve included a speculative coat of protofeathers. My rationale is that huge sauropods thermoregulate using gigantothermy, while smaller prosauropods would rely more on insulation.
This is printed using risograph (hence the limited colours).

Description

3/5 fleshed Royal Ontario Museum fossils
Plateosaurus engelhardti was a late Triassic prosauropod, ancestor to the giant elephantine titanosaurs of the Cretaceous. The evolutionary split from the heavily feathered theropods was recent, so I’ve included a speculative coat of protofeathers. My rationale is that huge sauropods thermoregulate using gigantothermy, while smaller prosauropods would rely more on insulation.
This is printed using risograph (hence the limited colours).