My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2023 illustration of Herrerasaurus chasing a pack of Eoraptor, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Herrerasaurus #Eoraptor #Triassic #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #CampCretaceous #WildlifeArt
what I love about the Triassic is it has an intriguing mix of organisms more commonly associated with the Paleozoic, like Temnospondyls, weird Xiphosurans, and Dicynodonts, organisms unique to the Mesozoic, like Pterosaurs and Sauropods, and organisms that are still with us today, like Theropods, Triops, several insect orders, decapods, and so on. Then there's all the things unique to the Triassic: Sharovipteryx, Tanystropheus, and so many more.
Meet Maleriraptor kuttyi, a new herrerasaurian #dinosaur from India https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/meet-maleriraptor-kuttyi-a-new-herrerasaurian-dinosaur-from-india/ by @Ferwen
A new herrerasaurian dinosaur from the Upper #Triassic Upper Maleri Formation of south-central India https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250081
"The discovery of Maleriraptor supports the idea that #herrerasaurs survived for longer in regions with favourable climates, such as India and North America, but disappeared earlier in South America"
El Praepinacoceras fue un género de ammonites del Triásico medio con una concha excepcionalmente comprimida lateralmente. 📷Joschua Knüppe #ammonite #triasico #triassic
Triassic age rocks from central East #Greenland preserve bountiful vertebrate fossils. A new study has described 950 specimens collected from these rocks in a single expedition. These specimens line up well with European faunas, confirming their influence in #Triassic Greenland.
El Eretmorhipis carrolldongi fue un reptil acuático del Triásico temprano con pico como un pato, u ornitorrinco, tres capas de osteodermos dorsales. 📷Nobu Tamura #Triasico #triassic
Top 10 Triassic Dinosaur Toys
Fossil of ancient crustacean gathering reveals new insights into their lives
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025/march/fossil-ancient-crustacean-gathering-reveals-new-insights-into-their-lives.html
Gregarious behaviour in #Carboniferous cyclidan #crustaceans https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0734
"With legs emerging from underneath rounded shells, #cyclidans looked not unlike an underwater beetle. Earliest species were a few mm in size and form #fossils that look like a tiny bunch of grapes. Over millions of years they evolved larger species, and by the #Triassic they were about as wide as a human hand"
Los listrosaurios (Lystrosaurus) fueron unos abundantes dicinodontos que vivieron desde el Pérmico tardío pero que realmente triunfaron en el Triásico temprano, cuando este robusto herbívoro se encontró sin apenas depredadores ni competidores. Vivir en madrigueras posiblemente le permitió sobrevivir al aumento del dióxido de carbono en la atmósfera.📷John Sibbick #permico #permian #triasico #triassic
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Some zooms into my "The Salt Lake Severn" painting (2022) of the Severn Estuary during the Middle Triassic, featuring Thecodontosaurus, cycads, and ferns. Commissioned by the Clevedon Pier Trust.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Thecodontosaurus #Cycads #Ferns #Triassic #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Into 2022 with a painting of the Severn Estuary during the Middle Triassic, called "The Salt Lake Severn," featuring Thecodontosaurus, cycads (Dioonitocarpidium), ferns (Thaumatopteris), and dust devils.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Thecodontosaurus #Cycads #Ferns #Triassic #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
Ancient #amphibians bounced back from Earth's greatest mass #extinction by exploiting #freshwater prey https://phys.org/news/2025-03-ancient-amphibians-earth-greatest-mass.html
The ecology and geography of #temnospondyl recovery after the #Permian–#Triassic #MassExtinction https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241200
"the #temnospondyls success lay in their generalist feeding ecology, enabling them to feed on a wide variety of prey... the freshwater habitats they preferred provided them with a relatively stable variety of food resources"
Lagerpeton chanarensis fue un pequeño dinosauromorfo basal del Triásico (236-234 MdA) que podría haberse desplazado a saltos. A pesar de su aspecto, parece que está más relacionado con los pterosaurios que con los dinosaurios. 📷Nobu Tamura #triasico #triassic
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2020 I illustrated LOCKED IN TIME, written by Dr Dean Lomax. Here's my "Casualties of the Drought" painting, which depicts hundreds of Dutuitosaurus crammed into a drying pond.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/locked-in-time/9780231197281
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Triassic
El Tanystropheus fue un reptil arcosauromorfo semiacuático del Triásico cuyo cuello era responsable de la mayor parte de los 6 metros como máximo que podía medir. Este estaba formado por 13 vértebras cervicales alargadas, con costillas cervicales. Por ello, requería de un aparato respiratorio capaz de tomar aire sin que gran parte se quedara en la traquea. 📷Renesto S. & Saller F., 2018 #triasico #triassic
Make Pangaea Great Again: "It filled the land with giants, the seas with monsters and the skies with dragons." #Triassic #History #PreHistory #Paleontology #Paywalled #Sorry https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2024/12/19/of-all-the-geological-periods-the-triassic-was-the-most-fabulous
#Lizards and #snakes are 35 million years older than we thought
Cryptovaranoides microlanius was a tiny #lizard that skittered around what is now southern #England during the late #Triassic, around 205Mya. University of Bristol has analyzed that #fossil and determined that Cryptovaranoides is not an archosaur but a lepidosaur, part of a larger order of #reptiles that includes squamates, the reptile group of modern snakes and lizards. It is now also oldest known squamate.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/12/lizards-and-snakes-are-35-million-years-older-than-we-thought/
El Rhynchosaurus articeps fue un reptil arcosauromorfo herbívoro del Triásico medio (247-242 MdA). Tenía pico, con dientes anchos y planos en el maxilar y paladar, que iban sustituyéndose de atrás a adelante, aunque el desgaste por comer raíces y tubérculos hacía que acabaran muriendo de hambre.📷SeismicShrimp #triasico #triassic
A few words about the recent study of bromalites from Late Triassic to Early Jurassic of Poland, delving into how and why dinosaurs became so succesful.
Pár slov k nedávné studii bromalitů z pozdního triasu a rané jury Polska, která se ponořila do otázek, jak a proč se dinosauři stali tak úspěšnými.
#evolution #dinosaurs #paleontology #bromalite #triassic #jurassic
https://blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/2024/12/fosilni-trus-z-polska-poskytuje-voditka.html
Triassic #reptile with unusual jaws named as a new species
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-triassic-reptile-unusual-jaws-species.html
A new procolophonid with complex dentition from the Late #Triassic of southwest England https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1605
"#Threordatoth chasmatos was one of the last survivors of the #procolophonids, a group of #lizard-like #animals that were once widespread during the Triassic."
