#camarasaurus

Sketches I’ve made of various Jurassic fauna, from bottom to top: Camarasaurus, Dimorphodon, Pterodactylus, Liopleurodon, Stegosaurus and Allosaurus. As a paleontology enthusiast since childhood, I consider the Jurassic to be my favorite period of the Mesozoic Era, since it’s called “The Golden Age of Dinosaurs” for being the heyday of not only the dinosaurs but also the pterosaurs and some of the most spectacular marine reptiles and fish ever to swim the earth’s oceans, and for boasting some of the coolest animals of the entire Mesozoic era overall, even when much of 2020s paleomedia skips it completely in favor of the more popular animals of the Late Cretaceous or the Pleistocene.

Dinovember time! this year i'll be a week behind (elections, apartment, and other (dys)functions kept me busy for the start of the month) but better late than never. so let's begin with Camarasaurus

Hello🦕

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Camarasaurus ribcage at the Wyoing Dinosaur Center. They're pretty wonky--that's because it's a composite fossil of multiple different specimens.

Photo: Image no. 45615, AMNH Library

https://archive.org/details/marvelsofanimall00holdrich/page/n196/mode/1up

Zooms from my 2023 illustration of some Morrison Formation sauropods, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press). Features are Camarasaurus, Diplodocus, two Brachiosaurus, two Dryosaurus and a Stegosaurus skeleton. 50% off this book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244297/dinosaur-behavior?srsltid=AfmBOor26alZAAmDt4MF-7u2Kw53JRvhmaFzfcs9IMn2k1insJGLnx8p