Big post in the making!
As the last post Involving ALL the formation stream pieces got too long to be comfortable for scrolling I have decided to start a new one this year! For new people a little recap:
The Formation streams are an ongoing series of live streams on my Twitch/YouTube channels where I draw every week one of these menageries portraying the flora and fauna of locality of geologic formation. The Discord community helps along and before you ask: no there are no prints of this and yes I would like to tun this into a book one day but no idea when and how.
Here a link post I kept expanding unto end of 2025 HERE
First piece of the year was the Elliot Formation from early Jurassic South Africa!
Adding the Agate Fossil Beds from the Miocene of Nebraska. A paradise for many bizarre ungulates.
Adding the Djadochta Formation from the late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Home of many iconic dinosaurs and even more small fantastic critters.
Adding the Joggins Formation from the Carboniferous of Canada. A place where nature dumped random lizard corpses in hollow logs.
Adding the MOTH locality from the early Devonian of Canada, a place filled with bizarre early fish, with jaws and without.
Adding the Naracoorte Caves from the Pleistocene of South Australia. A wonderland for large and small marsupials before the dawn of man.
Adding the Ein Yabrud quarry from Cretaceous of Palestine, an assemblage of often time beautifully preserved fish, marine reptiles and invertebrates.
Adding Koobi Fora from the early Pleistocene of Kenya. Come for the hominis, stay for the overwhelming diversity of megafauna!
Adding the Wadi al Hitan, the valley of the whales. A classic Eocene locality of Walking With Beasts fame. The hunting grounds of Basilosaurus.
Adding the Sulphur Mountain Formation, a Triassic refuge for the last Eugeneodonts, which overlapped here with thalattosaurs, very early ichthyosaurs and tons of fish!
Adding the Wellington Formation from the Permian of Kansas, home of the largest insect of all time!
Adding the middle Pleistocene of Sicily, a bizarre world of tiny elephants, large rodents and tortoises and so many birds!
Adding the Escuminac Formation from the Devonian of Canada. A fish nursery frozen in time.
Adding the Zechstein sea, a warm Permian sea from Central Europe, filled with tons of classic critters from the early days of paleontology
Adding the Pisco Formation from Miocene Peru! An absolute baller to paint once you simply ignore the Megalodon in the room.
Adding the Walcott quarry of the Burgess Shale deposit. The origin of the theory of the Cambrian Explosion!
Adding the locality of Milia 5, a lost paradise of mammalian megafauna from the Pliocene of Greece. Home of some of the biggest tuskers of all time.
Adding the lagerstätte of Cabrières from the Ordovician of southern France. A shallow marine world of little guys, thriving under polar lights.
Adding the Florissant Formation from the late Eocene of Colorado. Cool plants and mammals? Yes, but you stay for the bugs.
Adding the Fiddlers Green Formation from the Silurian of New York and southern Canada, the mother load of eurypterids!
Adding the Tiaojishan Formation from the Middle Jurassic if China. A moist paradise for small arboreal critters.
