#hyperodapedon

here's the results of this week's #Paleostream flocking!

this week we sketched Platycerabos, Mixosaurus, Tetrameryx, and Hyperodapedon

Flocking Together

Platycerabos/Mixosaurus

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Welcome to DinApril 2025, where instead of recycling my list from last year, I made my mom come up with the dinosaurs! Our sixth day features her favorite herrerasaur: Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis! In an homage to a Wayne Barlowe painting from An Alphabet of Dinosaurs by Peter Dodson (the first dinosaur alphabet book I ever read and one of my & my mom's favorites), a juvenile male attacks a Hyperodapedon sanjuanensis while his mother encourages him from a distance.

The painting, for reference:

The Herrerasaurus in the painting HAD to be a juvenile because an adult Herrerasaurus is MUCH larger than a Hyperodapedon.

Ischigualasto Formation Poster

A stylized depiction of a scene from Late Triassic Argentina, around 230 million years ago. Ischigualasto was home to a varied assortment of vertebrates, including therapsids, pseudosuchians and some of the very first dinosaurs.

252mya.com/triassicargentina

Ischigualasto series, alternate takes:

Hyperodapedon, acrylic painting, 2023}