#centrosaurus

here's what we sketched during this week's #Paleostream flocking:

Brachiosaurus, Centrosaurus, Rauisuchus, and Muttaburrasaurus

Have you ever heard of Centrosaurus apertus? This dinosaur lived during the Late Cretaceous, about 75 million years ago. Unlike Triceratops, it had one large horn over its nose, small horns over the eyes, and a relatively short frill. This specimen was uncovered by famed Museum fossil hunter Barnum Brown in 1914. He considered it to be the most complete specimen he had ever found, “in all details from the tip of the tail to the end of the nose.” Brown and his crew discovered the skeleton in the badlands along the Red Deer River in Canada. You can see it up close in the Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs!

Result from the Dinosaur Park Formation #paleostream! This formation was on the wheel from the start and I anticipated and dreaded it at the same time. As one of the most famous dinosaur bearing formations this piece offered several challenges.

The major issue is that we have so much megafauna here. The way we eventually brought at least a few of them into the same frame was by having a migrating herd of Centrosaurus coming by a bunch of hadrosaurs licking salt from steep shorelines in this oxbow lake.

To reduce at least a little the amount of fauna to take into account we limited ourselves to the upper portion of the lower member of this formation. This graphic by discord member Vidax came in handy. The Dinosaur Park formation preserves the remnants of a large river system (more than 100 m wide) that once flew into the WIS. I imagine this piece to take place in the mid portion where the river meanders a lot. One would expect lots of sidearms and oxbow lakes to form here.

This piece wasn't as full as last weeks Las Hoyas but I also didn't want to burden the composition to much by cramming several more herds in here or pile up small fauna in the foreground. As you can see in these size charts by Montana, there is a lot to play with.

Dinovember 2024 Day 11: The Ancient Herds

Truned these little ceratopsian lads into stickers as well, to add to my existing stash of dinosaur head profile stickers!

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Flocking Together

Brachiosaurus/Centrosaurus