#cretac

[amnhnyc]

It’s Fossil Friday! Let’s swim back in time about 85 million years to the Late Cretaceous Period to meet Xiphactinus, a gigantic predatory fish. This species could reach lengths of 17 ft (5.2 m) and was capable of swallowing a 6-ft- (2-m-) long fish whole!

The Museum’s Xiphactinus fossils come from Logan County, Kansas, which is home to 70-ft- (21.3 m-) tall sedimentary formations. Though that might not sound like an ideal home for an ocean-dweller, the entire area was covered by a vast inland sea during the Cretaceous.

Photo: Image no. ptc-6634 © AMNH (circa 1996)

#science #amnh #museum #fossil #natural history #nature #paleontology #fish #cretac #xiphactinus #did you know #fact of the day #cool animals #ancient animals #ocean life

[sticksandsharks]

little cretaceous guys + guest appearance of our even older friend the gorgonpsid (triceratops, pteradon, carnotaurus, parasaurolophus, deinonychus, ichthyosaur, gorgonopsid, repenomamus)

#paleoart #cretaceous #extinct #animal #triceratops #pteradon #carnotaurus #parasaurolophus #deinonychus #ichthyosaur #gorgonopsid #repenomamus

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

We know little about the deep sea environments of the Mesozoic but one place where we can get a glimpse into this world is the Münsterland basin. We have here several localities that preserved shallow and deep water animals side by side, caused by underwater landslides. These carried stuff from the rim of the basin and buried them in the deep with other material that was down there.

Tachynectes here is a very early lanternfish. Flattened lanternfishes are no longer a thing these days and we actually have lanternfishes from these localities that show their photophores preserved. We know where they glowed!

#sciart #paleoart #paleostream #palaeoblr #cretaceous #fish #münsterland #tachynectes

[cenospire]

A very curious Pyroraptor spots something interesting (a cycad seed) on the forest floor, and is just...tickled pink by it for some reason.

#pyroraptor #raptor #dromaeosaur #dinosaurs #paleoart #animation #late cretaceous

[monarchbutt]

whenever i can't picture dinosaurs existing i just humble myself by looking at birds alive today. what the actual fuck is that thing

#just look into the eyes of flamingos and you can see the dinosaur #biology #science #stem #sciblr #paleontology #zoology #fossils #prehistoric #dinosaurs #earth science #geoscience #dinosaur #paleoblr #cretaceous #sauropod #geology #prehistoric animals #birds #birdblr

[etchif]

#spinosaurus #paleoblr #I MEANT MID CRETACEOUS AS IN FROM THE MID CRETACEOUS NOT THAT SPINOSAURUS IS MID ITS NOT MID I WOULD NEVER SAY THAT!!!!!!!!!!

[paleoart]

Will it crack?

Morrosaurus, Cretaceous Antarctica

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#paleoart #palaeoblr #cretaceous #dinosaurs #antarctica #poles

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

#travel #damn #weird #horse #weird horse #on da roof #roof #Brazil #vacation #it’s a warm summer day #lol #argentinadraco #pterosaur #cretaceous #Mesozoic #cretaceous period #argentina #paleoart #paleontology #azhadarchid

[vickysaurus]

A good boi.

#simosuchus #ziphosuchian #pseudosuchian #prehistoric planet #cretaceous

[joakinmar]

Purgatorius and Tyrannosaurus by Bush Viper 165.

#paleoart #paleontology #dinosaur #prehistoric mammal #cretaceous #theropod #purgatorius #tyrannosaurus

[paleoforest]

Dinosaur with most grotesquely deep jaw proportion to its own head (not mention a huge head compared to rest body)

Only after a while I realized that barrel ones look like snapping turtles (Chelydridae). Very shape dudes, and they aren't related to Protoceratops.

#udanoceratops #leptoceratopsidae #ceratopsian #cretaceous #paleoart #prehistoric #paleontology #cartoon #gigachad

[kadalsaurus]

pair of baryonyx nuzzling

sketch

#art #illustration #digital art #illustrators on tumblr #aesthetic #animals #dinosaur #paleoart #paleontology #paleoblr #🦖 #palaeo stuff #paleoarte #paleo art #spinosauridae #spinosaurus #baryonyx #prehistoric animals #dinosaurartwork #dinosaur art #late cretaceous #prehistoric life #theropod #monster art #creature

[sylvanticus]

💗🪷 a Hadrosaur who had a long nap under the camellias and a bonus on my base :]

#art #khyrosart #artists on tumblr #dinosaur #paleo art #dino #paleoart #hadrosaur #extinct #Camellia #flowers #pink #blue #hearts #paleoblr #extinct animals #Cretaceous #tlatolophus

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Spinosaurus drama is cool and things, but do you know what's even cooler? Better fossils of animals that lived with Spinosaurus!

There is a new specimen of Concavotectum currently on display in Tuscon. BigSkyFossils took some photos of it and I had to doodle it! It's been a while since I did a tselfatiform and now we have finally an idea how the postcranium looked like!

So far we only had a few fragments and this pretty good skull. As some people noted though, the eye is reconstructed in the wrong corner.

#sciart #paleoart #paleostream #palaeoblr #cretaceous #spinosaurus #kem kem #morocco #fossil fish #concavotectum

[snaileo]

hello i am sick so i cant draw to the best of my ability right now but i needed it out of my system

Transcript below

Darius: Ben?

Ben: Hm?

Darius: So, uhmmm....[gestures wildly] What happened here?

Ben: Oh, uhmmm, I don't know. Growth spurt?

Ben: [playfully nudges with elbow] What? Didya believe I started to bench press Bumpy?

Darius: Haha, no but thanks for the mental image.

#camp cretaceous #jurassic world #jwcc #jwct #chaos theory #jurassic world chaos theory #darius bowman #ben pincus #snaileo art

[monarchbutt]

me and my homies pulling up to the function

#paleontology #biology #sciblr #stem #science #geology #cool rocks #rocks #mineralogy #geology rocks #dinos #dinosaurs #dinosaur #prehistoric #palaeoblr #triassic #cretaceous #cephalopod #earth #earth science