#anteosaurus

Distant Lands «The sand was still relentless and that biome seemed to give the sensation of being in a permanent state. It was so that looking for a place to rest, Valgrehm went up the rocks when she perceived a movement, meeting doves that could avoid her jaws.» ✧

Hey everyone! I'm currently on hiatus, but I couldn't resist spreading some love to the Anteosaurus! This is a drawing from 2022. I have to admit, drawing its pose was difficult, but I still feel like I managed it… sort of. It still looks kind of weird, lol, but the reason I'm here is because of this criminally underrated video so I wanted to share it.

It has very few views and honestly seeing one of these Permian dwellers is quite rare on video, let alone in a small sculpture project so give it some love! ✧

Some representatives of the superfamily Anteosauroidea from the order Dinocephalia.

A digital imitation of low-budget eastern stop-motion cut-out animation for my analog horror project about fungus infection.

This is part of a mockumentary paleontological film in which a relative of the synapsid Anteosaurus hunts a parareptilian Scutosaurus.

Line art of the titanosuchid dinocephalian Jonkeria truculenta from the Middle Permian of South Africa. This unusual therapsid was described in 1916 from a nearly complete skeleton with skull. Many other species were identified in subsequent years, but some are likely synonyms of each other or the type species (J. truculenta). Jonkeria's skull has an elongated, wide snout and a high occiput. The jaws contained powerful incisors and canines, as well as numerous spoon-shaped postcanine teeth. This combination of teeth possibly indicates omnivory. Jonkeria is also distinguished by its very massive body, supported by short but muscular limbs, the forelimbs being particularly strong. This animal belongs to the fauna of the so-called Tapinocephalus Zone Assemblage (named for the genus common to its deposits) and shared what would become South Africa with large herbivorous and predatory dinocephalians and a number of smaller animals.

Some therapsid doodling going on on my sketchbook

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