A few years ago, I started my personal project on the Upper Cretaceous Northumberland Formation of British Columbia, and I know proper background has been a long time coming. So here's a blogpost explaining what it's about, how and why I started it, and my future plans Link in reply ⬇️

Saw a Siler cupreus male(?) in Japan yesterday! It was raising its front legs and shaking its abdomen, so I assumed it was doing a display at the ants at first, but this myrmectophagous species may have been trying to hunt them instead

@echinoblog.bsky.social very intriguing Late Cretaceous echinoderm fossil from Vancouver Island (not mine) posted in a local paleontology Facebook group (www.facebook.com/groups/nanai...) Any thoughts?

Keurbos susanae, a newly described giant arthropod from the Ordovician-age Soom Shale of South Africa.

My first blogpost in over a year is now out! The famous Greenland shark has its own little counterparts in the genus Rhinoscymnus, and among their first records is R. clarki from the Late Cretaceous Northumberland Fm. How much do we know about them? Check the link in replies ⬇️ #paleoart #sciart

#MolluscMonday Examples of Sphenoceramus cf sachalinensis and S. cf naumanni from the Late Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island. #PaleoSky #Fossils #FossilCollecting #NanaimoGroup #Cretaceous #CretaceousPeriod #FossilFriday #Paleontology #Palaeontology

A few more more for #MolluscMonday These bivalves were collected from the Late Cretaceous rocks of the Nanaimo Group on Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island. #PaleoSky #Fossils #FossilCollecting #NanaimoGroup #Cretaceous #CretaceousPeriod #Paleontology #Palaeontology #FossilFriday

An assortment of late Cretaceous spatangoid urchins collected from the Haslam Formation of Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Part of an ongoing project to organize and document fossils in my collection. #FossilFriday #PaleoSky #FossilCollecting #Fossils #Cretaceous #NanaimoGroup

Reposting for #Invertefest... feels a little unorthodox amongst all the extant ones I'm seeing :^)

In the frigid waters of jurassic arctic a female Colymbosaurus svalbardensis helps her newborn baby take first breath in it´s life. The protective pod stays close

Great article on 🦈 Palaeocarcharias from the Tithonian of 🇫🇷 France by Guinot G., Vullo R., Peyer K. et Reneleau V. Palaeocarcharias is considered here to belong to the Orectolobidae (Orectolobiformes). @recherche-mnhn.bsky.social @mnhn.fr CR2P #Elasmobranch www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Going up a day earlier than on Twitter: my reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous frog crab Bournelyreidus eysunesensis from Greenland, a source of vexation for the past three months... #SciArt #paleoart

Helicoprion, a long extinct shark-esque from the Permian period, ~270 million years ago. It's known best for it's iconic, sawblade-like tooth whorl (...which I didn't draw)

My first reconstruction of 2024 will probably also be the most frustrating one to have worked on: the fossil sponge crab Sabellidromites laneae from the Campanian Northumberland Fm. in British Columbia More decapod content coming in the future... #paleoart #sciart

Haven't done much since I was last here, but I have published a blogpost about the wonders of Cretaceous dogfish, which I recommend as one of my proudest works yet notesofbonestodustoff.wordpress.com/2023/12/27/i...

An albino Jormungandr circles a Ginko adiantoides sapling that was blown into the sea by a recent thunderstorm. Jormungandr is a recently described genus of mosasaur from the Pierre Shale Fm. described by Zietlow et al., (2023) congrats on the successful publication!

While it may look like a squid, Enchoteuthis is more at home in #OCTOtober, as its closest living relatives are octopuses While most common in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, this specimen shows that the genus also lived in the Pacific, and it has even been found in Australia! #SciArt 🐡

For #FossilFriday, here's the largest known frilled shark: a giant Proteothrinax specimen from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Japan Although the exact measurements are tentative, it appears to have reached lengths of ~7 m, making it one of the largest squalomorphs ever

For #FossilFriday, here's the largest known frilled shark: a giant Proteothrinax specimen from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Japan Although the exact measurements are tentative, it appears to have reached lengths of ~7 m, making it one of the largest squalomorphs ever

For #SundayFishSketch, here's my reconstruction of the giant frilled shark Proteothrinax goliath from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian, ~72 ma) of Angola; one of the largest chlamydoselachids, but not *the* largest... Check out my blogpost to learn more about these sharks! Link in the replies

Hey, I'm George and I do little clay models and dioramas of prehistoric creatures. Follow for plenty of silly little creatures!

Welcome new people! I’m a 3D paleoartist who works in Blender and Zbrush primarily. Here’s some dinosaur models of mine made in the past few years

Fujianvenator prodigiosus, a small recently described avialan strides amongst the rocks of a dried creek. Still a pretty new sketch and also my first post around here :> #paleoart

Microraptor on the hunt 🐡🎨🪶🧪 #paleontology

I've been doing a lot of reading on Late Cretaceous squalids recently, and while I've found out that their taxonomy is absolutely horrendous, I've also figured out what the largest known taxa are, compiled into this size chart #sciart #paleoart

In which I post a daily shark fact 🦈🧪🦑 🌎 on Bluesky every day unless I forget in which case they’ll be more like daily-ish: The American pocket shark isn’t called that because it can fit in your pocket, though it can. It has a flesh pocket full of glow in the dark liquid to distract predators.

Just finished a new reconstruction of the very tiny fossil squalid Centrosqualus primaevus from the Santonian of Lebanon It is the smallest known dogfish, with the largest skeletons measuring under 30 cm in length #paleoart

ttention paleoartists. I finally finished one part of something that I've been planning to do a long time, a collection of references for the osteoderms of various pseudosuchian groups, starting with Notosuchia.

Plugging in an older blogpost on the Cretaceous' version of the fearsome cookiecutter shark: Hessinodon wardi from the late Campanian of British Columbia

I did skeletal and some other illustration work for a new publication by Dr. Andrzej Wolniewicz et al., publishing a new of saurosphargid and a new scheme for sauropterygian evolution. Give it a read! https://elifesciences.org/articles/83163

Eoraptor family I did back in 2016 #sciart

Australosuchus, the southern crocodile was the latest mekosuchine I looked into A medium sized crocodilians around 3 meters long and with a unique skull, it is the only crocodilian from the Oligocene and Miocene Lake Eyre Basin This is peculiar, as the north shows that crocs were diverse at the time

Going back to my older blogpost about Echinorhinus, the bramble shark, to make some fixes, including some changes to my reconstruction of the Northumberland fossil species Link in replies ⬇️ #SciArt

Frilled sharks are one of many oddballs of the deep today, but did you know that they have giant fossil relatives? Proteothrinax is among them, and some of its species grew to truly enormous sizes... Want to know more? Check my blogpost on them, linked in the replies! #SciArt #paleoart

i'm Justin, a B.C. university student greatly interested in the natural world, especially Mesozoic paleontology and marine bio i'm currently working on a Northumberland Fm. project, the progress of which you can view at my blog: https://notesofbonestodustoff.wordpress.com/