#Triassic

[monarchbutt]

me and my homies pulling up to the function

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

We are approaching the maximum of images you can post here so I thought it was time I make a little showcase of all the formation pieces we covered so far on the streams.

Chaneres Formation

Hanson Formation

Guimarota Formation

Winton formation

Holocene Madagascar

Riversleigh

Kimmeridge Clay

Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone

Hunsrück Slate

Yixian Formation

Paja Formation

Besano Formation

Pebas megawetland

Fezouata Formation

Ngorora Formation

Kuldana Formation

Madygen Formation

Jebel Qatrani '

Holocene Cuba

Pierre Shale

Crato Formation

Archer City Formation

Tambach Formation

La Brea tar pits

Morrison Formation

Sannine Formation

Ballagan Formation

Shanwang Formation

Austrian Paratethys

For people who don't know: for several months now I draw one formation or fossil locality every Saturday. The next place we visit is chosen by a wheel of names, which we also constantly fill up again when a new formation is picked.

I try to make it as interesting as possible in my composition and choice of animals and I can tell you this series has been a great training when it comes to constructing these, how I call them, Menageries.

I have to thank a team of friends and colleagues who help behind the scenes with research, creation of size charts and conversation partners when it comes to deciding on the compositions of these pieces. Their help has been invaluable!

[aberrantologist]

Praepinacoceras, an exceptionally thin ammonite from the Triassic.

[psie-smutki]

Triassic palaeofauna of Miedary locality

[stavrosskundromichalis]

A bit late, but here is my version of the recently discovered Late Triassic herrerasaur Maleriraptor kuttyi from India. A youngster strikes a pose on the fashionable Moss & Lichen Rock

[amnhnyc]

Skin? Moisturized. Teeth? Tusk-like. Today’s mood? Mastodonsaurus giganteus. This animal lived during the Late Triassic about 215 million years ago. It’s an extinct relative of frogs and salamanders, but it probably behaved more like a crocodile: Its large, flat skull and tusk-like teeth (some of which protruded through the skull) seem to be adapted for seizing large prey. You can see this life-sized model in the Museum’s Hall of Vertebrate Origins! Plan your visit.

[olorotitghten-up]

ngl a swim through the Surviving Earth primordial swamp would actually heal me

[incognitopolls]

If you have no opinion on this/don't like ancient history prehistoric periods/etc, choose Quaternary.

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[dimetrodone]

Triassic animals from memory

[neko-chan-13]

I Love You

digital drawing, 2025

[dinodanicus]

A baby phytosaur sunning himself on a fallen log.

Bonus retro version for good measure.

[fossillad123]

not a lotta know about loto

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Its finally out! Please Welcome Mirasaura! A new drepanosaur from the Middle Triassic of France. Gabriel Ugueto made the press artwork but I couldn't hold back and had to do my own interpretation during break time =)

This tiny guy not only shows strucutres that are basically the same as in Longisquama, it shows that Longissquama was likewise a drepanosaur and that reptiles experimented with beta keratin structures way earlier than we thought so far.

Learn more about it here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09167-9

[aberrantologist]

Eotephradactylus, North America's oldest known pterosaur, enjoys a crustaceous snack.

[makairodonx]

Breaking news! A newly-described European relative of the bizarre early Triassic reptile Longisquama just dropped:

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's how I built my model of Morganucodon (2017), a Triassic-Jurassic mammaliaform, commissioned by the University of Bristol and the National Museum Wales. Part 2 of 2 – I liked the furry trousers stage!