#hypuronector

Flocking doodles

Cretoxyrhina drowning a Pteranodon

Barinasuchus walking around at night

Clidastes preying on a flock of Hesperornis

here's today's #Paleostream sketches!!! today we drew Cretoxyrhina, Barinasuchus, Clidastes, Hypuronector

Results from todays flocking

The first sketch was cretoxyrhina, which I could do at the same time as everyone because eating, so I did this while everyone was posting In like uh ten minutes

Then we did

Barinasuchus

Clidastes

Flocking Together #56

Cretoxyrhina

Barinasuchus

Clidastes

Hypuronector limnaios, a basal drepanosaur from the Late Triassic (~220 mya) of New Jersey, USA. Only around 12cm long (4.7″), it’s known from several incomplete fossils and was originally described as an aquatic reptile due to its flat paddle-like tail -- but the thin delicate bones and inflexible structure of the tail wouldn’t actually have made it very useful for swimming at all. It’s more likely that Hypuronector was a tree-climber like its relatives, with its odd leaf-shaped tail perhaps being used for some sort of display or camouflage.