r/AwesomeAncientanimals

my first guess was some kind of amphicyonid but, it's not burly enough to be Amphicyon itself and it's not slim enough to be any of the other ones

Happy tuesday everyone. Didn't have much time last Tuesday so I had to skip it, but here we go with the next one. Hope you guys enjoy.

Among the better-known lizards from the formation is Barbatteius, a genus of relatively large lizards with an estimated total length of 80 cm, but other specimens could have gotten bigger. Its relatively robust morphology suggests that it may have occupied the role of a medium-sized opportunistic predator within the island ecosystem, potentially comparable in ecological role to modern tegus. Barbatteius may also have served as prey for larger predators inhabiting the island, including Balaur bondoc.

Obviously ripping off is not anything new, but how is it an excuse to not combat it? Again, how would you let it slide if ripoff of your OC would get on top and your OC was left obscure?

End of Oak Street may not be fully up there as the best dinosaur movie ever but it is exactly what we all expected from Jurassic World Dominion.

Oak Street’s Spino seems to be a bit chunkier and bigger so he may be able to overpower Asset 87 but the agility of Asset 87 may be a better advantage. Tbh it might be a 50/50.

Among the better-known lizards from the formation is Barbatteius, a genus of relatively large lizards with an estimated total length of 80 cm, possibly more.

Its relatively robust morphology suggests that it may have occupied the role of a medium-sized opportunistic predator within the island ecosystem, potentially comparable in ecological role to modern teiids. Barbatteius may also have served as prey for larger predators inhabiting the island, including the Balaur bondoc.

Barbatteius had heterodont dentition without enlarged posterior crushing teeth, similar to many modern teiid lizards. It suggests that it fed on arthropods (Such as millipedes and spiders), small vertebrates (such as amphibians, turtle hatchlings, smaller lizards and maybe multiturbeculates) and plants.

The name Barbatteius Means "Tegu from the Bărbat River", with "barbat" in reference to the river the fossil was close to and the suffix "teius" in reference to a genus of teiid lizards.

Personally, I actually adore these guys because it's actually creative and unique to create new non species rather than reusing the ones that are known in reality, in my opinion 🤷.

Unaysaurus tolenti. Didn’t know of this guy until I decided to draw it. One of the earliest sauropodomorphs. I pictured it much larger before actually researching it. Lol look up a size comparison.

The reconstruction was made by the São Luís paleontology team and depicts a young specimen, about 7.8 meters long atributed to the species Oxalaia quilombensis. The statue is still displayed since 2023 to this day in the Rangedor Park in the São Luís city. It lost most of its back coloration due to rain and other natural events, but still a amazing depiction of how the real animal could have looked like.

He flex

i did this sculpt out of spite after 'life on our planet' kinda didn't do it justice

Flores, Indonesia during the Pleistocene (Ice Age) was a very isolated island full of life leaving evolution to create animals that are hard to believe exist.

The Stegodon (Stegodon florensis insularis) are a sister group to the elephants and mammoths, having no modern relatives. They are notable for there long tusks, this species in particular was 3.9-6.2 ft a size of cow which is considered small to its other subspecies. Due to island dwarfism making large animals smaller.

Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) were and still now the dominant predator on Flores, what makes this cunning hunter dangerous is its iron teeth full of venom helping it take down prey larger than it.

Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) swims across the swamps and beaches of the island, reaching sizes even bigger than the Komodo. They will wait underwater and strike its prey dragging them with a bite force of 3,700 PSI.

Giant Flores Stork (Leptoptilos robustus) is a 6 ft avian predator that stalks the jungle looking for any animals to snatch. While it usually scavenges carrion they will opportunistically eat the native rats and even homo Floresiensis. Their closets relative today is the Marabou stork while this species is went extinct 50’000-10’000 B.C.

All these amazing megafauna were created with scientific accuracy in mind while stylizing them in Hominin Tales art style. Dorko the Homo Floresiensis will face all these animals in “Primitive Errands” will he survive against them? …

Stay tuned to find out, alongside animatics and updates about this Indie Animated pilot.

Thanks to u/TesseractToo for suggesting the ordovocian circus!

Top post will decide what Sacabambaspis finds inside the tent! 🎪 👀

Is it snacks? Frembs? Something unexpected?

What do you think it is?