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Titanoboa cerrejonensis
One of the largest snakes to have existed, certainly the heaviest with a length of ~45ft(~14m) and weights reaching a ton. Titanoboa lived during the Paleocene in South America with other very large reptiles.
Analysis of skull material reveal a piscivorous diet. Many large lungfish & bony fish called the Cerrejón water systems home which proved a boon to the massive serpent.
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Titanoboa with Lithornis for scale (?), except I didn't have time to double-check how big these are in comparison to each other whoops
[img id] Painterly, cel-shaded digital art of a Titanoboa, which is this absolutely massive snake from the Paleolithic. Think boa constrictor, but more and more and more until the whole world is basically just…snake. The Titanoboa can barely fit on its isometric chunk of grass-covered earth, try as it might to hunker down and look all nestled in and cute like snakes can always do. It has light-orange, python-like markings and a sandy white belly, with a yellow eye peering at the brown Lithornis that decided to pose on its coil nearby. The Lithornis has a red throat and a white speckled belly and it has zero motivation to be in this piece, it just is. [/id]
Gotta love the mammals of the Paleocene, living in a world just emptied out of its giants, figuring out how to fill the niches of great hunters and browsers that had never belonged to mammals before. Extreme "perfectly generic Beast" energy, too
(top row: Chriacus, Phenacodus, Taeniolabis; bottom row: Barylambda, Protungulatum, Stylinodon, all pics from Wikipedia)
“Mamma’s Children”, the back cover for Paleocene #6.
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And here the result of the Hornerstown Formation #paleostream! This formation was deposited from the late Maastrichtian to the early Paleocene and has direct evidence of the K-Pg impact preserved. Perfect to have a moody piece like this, something that I wanted to do for a while
As such we decided against yet another Cretaceous piece and instead opted to show you the Danian part of the formation, not long after the extinction event. Thousands of years after the impact the storms at the coast of New Jersey reveal the subfossil remains of Mesozoic giants.
For me the most interesting parts of this fauna were the many sharks and rays as well the fragmentary but diverse bird community. On top of that we have an interesting invertebrate fauna with potential evidence a few ammonites making it past the K-Pg boundary.
As this piece is set in the shallows i wasn't really able to add in a few of the larger survivors, but in this case the vibe was more important to me than completeness. Feel free to use this size chart by Discord member Montana to create your own compositions ;)
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Februsaury Day 5: South Island Adzebill
As far as my research told me these guys have no living descendants for me to take plumage inspiration from so I just made up some markings <3 Love the beaks on these guys
Graphite on Mixed Media paper
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Image ID: A realistic graphite drawing of an extinct South Island Adzebill from the neck up. The bird has a large domed beak that comes together in a sharp point. Dark feathers run from the top of its head onward while lighter feathers line its underside. A white oval marking surrounds its eye separated by a strip of dark feathers between it and its bottom jaw. 5 white stripes which get progressively longer from top to bottom creep up from the white underside partway into the dark feathers on the back of its neck. To the left handwritten text reads,"Februsaury Day 5 - South Island Adzebill - Aptornis Defossor - Late Pleistocene" and separately the handwritten artists signature is at the left base of the birds neck which reads,"Xavier Daigle 2026.". END ID.
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1.6" Fossil Leaf (Archeampelos) - Montana
