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Osmatar — Sketchtember Week 2
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Published: 2017-09-19 06:47:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 2113; Favourites: 74; Downloads: 5
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#Sketchtember 2017 continues with the second week. It seems like the most deciding factor on how my sketches turn out is how much time I have available. Day 12 obviously had way too much.Day 9: Troll and the warrior (not great but the only thing I finished on a busy day of babysitting)
Day 10: Psittacosaurus sibiricus for Olorotitan on his birthday
Day 11: An unplanned sketchgoblin
Day 12: Radon a.k.a. Rodan redesign
Day 13: Baby tyrannosaurid for Thomas Holtz on his birthday (unfortunately not finished in time)
Day 14: Oliverhayia brontosaurops, the retrosauropod
Day 15: Early lobe-finned ancestor of hexapodal dragons
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Could we get a separate picture of the retrosauropod?
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That's my intention, but right now I'm struggling to get all of Drawlloween uploaded.
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Alrighty.
BTW, would you mind if I sent you a note with some ideas for Magestone?
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I wouldn't mind at all, new ideas are always welcome.
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I would love to see a continuation of the hexapodal fish.
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I designed a bunch of early hexapods long ago, maybe I'll resurrect them at some point.
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Speaking of which, what do you think of Shringasaurus? You must be mightily chuffed that it looks like a retrosaur made real, huh?
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I am indeed!
There actually were flying dinosaurs (Yi, sort of) and swimming dinosaurs (Spinosaurus), Brontosaurus was real, Spinosaurus might have been a tail-dragger, T-rex didn't have feathers, giant reptiles living alongside humans in Australia, massive Rhedosaurus-like crocs throughout the Mesozoic, and now this, a real-life slurpasaur. All we need is a tail-dragging tyrannosaur and a bipedal pterosaur that can carry off prey, and paleontology extremists will be broken.
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So we talked about the idea of a pterosaur with clutching feet, and then this thing gets discovered. Anurognathid with reversed 1st toe for perching. Sorry that the paper is not open access:
sp.lyellcollection.org/content…
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...Holy shit, you're right.
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I think it is not unequivocal that T-rex had no feathers, but it certainly had many bare areas and may have been mostly featherless. I figure that negative, gap-filling assumptions are not always correct, Andrea Cau suggested Carnotaurus had feathers on parts of it where no impressions were preserved, this seems extremely silly to me. I have also had people suggest I fluff up my ankylosaurs, which made me facepalm.
Yes, Rhedosaurus-things like Razanandrongobe or Barinasuchus are a good start, I personally think that Fasolasuchus is a good match too, or Saurosuchus.
I don't really think a clutching pterosaur will be found, one with big foot claws for climbing, maybe. A tail-dragging theropod in the classical sense is not going to be found, but dinosaurs may not have always held their tails in the air, they would have to relax every now and then.
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Thanks! I had quite a bit of fun with it.
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To be perfectly honest, if you scaled it down to perhaps 5 meters, it would be a very passable Allokotosaur (like Azendohsaurus is, but bigger and neckier).
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The Retrosaur makes me think of what would happen if land iguanas were given the Galapagos Tortoise niche and a few million years time
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