#pterosaur post

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

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Free Speculative Evolution Prompt Saturday

What if birds never evolved, and pterosaurs survived into the Cenozoic?

[pansylair]

🟨 Rhamphorhynchus 🟨

acrylic, gouache, and gloss medium on coldpress

Part of the Nucleus House Group Show: P.S. 9, Opening on December 15th, Portland, OR.

One of my three 5x7" postcard sized paintings that will be available in person and online. :)

[haltraveler]

Digitized version of a doodle I made last week to entertain some 3rd graders

[cypressure]

flocking 6/20/25 — Bolg (with something precious), Diplobune, Zhejiangopterus, Iberomesornis (with Neovenator)

[dinoserious]

comm recents!

[bornulhuu]

20 min Zhejiangopterus doodle scene.

A piece from today's flocking paleostream.

[barghest-land]

rhamphinion couple:) from february this year

[wickwackity]

ily plesiosaur!!!

[patchqork]

Weird critter

[cretaceous-creature]

Okay, late night post, but I feel it's too important to leave until the morning.

Alamodactylus

On this blog, I've recently been posting a lot about being a pterosaur, a Quetzalcoatlus, and some mystery species. But I found that mystery species.

I'm on summer break from school, and with that time, so I don't feel like I've been wasting it entirely, I've been looking into my therianthropy hence all the new updates and discoveries. Earlier on, 6 hours ago at 9 pm or so, I was on pinterest looking at pictures of Quetzalcoatlus for one to put in my intro post. A recommended image was one of a pterosaur called Alamodactylus. I looked at it, and it clicked. I found my species after nearly 3 years of searching. Small crest, costal, medium wingspan, late cretaceous, north America, down to every last bit, it is me.

I did some research, although I didn't really need to do much for me to kinfirm, considering the near 3 years of research into my pterosaur identity. It didn't take me long to kinfirm it.

Alamodactylus is a part of pteranodontia and nyctosauromorpha, which I believe could explain why I was always drawn to pteranodontids and nyctosauromorphs when trying to find my species. Alamodactylus also has a slightly larger wingspan that I thought I had, which did kind of throw me off, but I do think that was due to questioning smaller pterosaurs more so I began to imagine myself as small. Their wingspan is 13-16 feet, which feels very suitable for myself.

Alamodactylus is pretty unknown. There's few pieces of art on it, a combined total of 2 tiktok and tumbr posts on it (each 3 years old), no animations for it, the most famous appearance is ark, etc. But i kind of like being unknown. I know I'm likely the only alamodactylus alive right now, so I don't really have to worry about my memories being different from someone else's.

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

Drew this

The scale is a little weird but do this by myself at night

You ever fall in love with a prehistoric animal not because of other reconstructions but because of your own?

can we go back to Simurghia yet

Discount Pteranodont (jk love you tethydraco)

The child predator

and Jerry

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[saritapaleo]

Archovember 2024 Day 14 - Cuspicephalus scarfi

Cuspicephalus scarfi was a wukongopterid pterosaur from Late Jurassic England. It’s name comes from the Latin cuspis for “point” and the Greek κεφαλή for “head”, and its species name is a reference to Gerald Scarfe who was known for caricatures with very pointy noses (including Margaret Thatcher as the “Torydactyl), and who was also the production designer for Disney’s Hercules. Cuspicephalus scarfi basically means “pointed head which could have been designed by Gerald Scarfe.” Looking at this animal you can probably see the resemblance! Cuspicephalus had a very long, angled skull, most of which was occupied by the air pockets in its fenestra. A low bony crest is present, which was likely the base of a much higher soft tissue crest. Like most other Jurassic pterosaurs, it had sharp interlocking teeth, and likely also had a long ornamented tail. Due to its small size and lightly built skull, it probably fed on small land animals like arthropods and worms.

Cuspicephalus scarfi was found in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation. This was a seaside environment and is known for its many fish, turtle, plesiosaur, and icthyosaur fossils. Other pterosaurs have been found here as well, but from later ages than Cuspicephalus. Other archosaurs would have included the stegosaur Dacentrurus, the iguanodontian Cumnoria, the megalosaurid Torvosaurus, and the thalattosuchians Bathysuchus, Cricosaurus, Dakosaurus, Metriorhynchus, Plesiosuchus, and Torvoneustes.

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[wyrmways]

I love prehistoric planet so so dearly but i do wish that they made the animals a little less gray.

Especially in cases of animals that are theorized to have sexual display traits like frills or crests?? They put some color on them but compared to real life animals (especially reptiles & birds!) they are just sooo dull.

Nanuqsaurus was especially disappointing for me. Maybe it's just because it's normally depicted as some kind of white color, but i feel having the opportunity for such a unique color on this dinosaur and making it mostly the same grayish brown as so many other dinosaurs in the show was a missed opportunity.

Part of this is definitely the filter and lighting they put over certain scenes to make them look more 'natural' i suppose. I think the male hatzegopteryx's crest is actually very beautiful, but unfortunately due to the lighting of the show it often appears so much more drab and dull than it should be, even in broad daylight .

(color in show vs art by ttorroo on instagram)

This is a major reason the corythoraptor design stood out to me, because they were just so bright and beautiful in comparison to everything else in the show! Every time they were on screen i thought it was amazing to get to see these dinosaurs in such vibrant color! This shows that they /can/ depict dinosaurs in this way at least.

And i feel as though the only reason they /were/ blue is because they were based off of the modern cassowaries (one of which i got to see in person recently, they are a GORGEOUS blue. So much brighter than you would expect, heres a picture)

I just feel like, even though i love prehistoric planet, its quest to be overly 'realistic' holds it back in this area at least. The only animals they were willing to make super vibrant were the ones they based on a living similar bird, instead of considering that if the bright colors of a cassowary are possible, there's nothing that says that other bright colors could be possible on other types of dinosaurs.

Especially considering the colors of other birds! If they wanted to base the dino coloring on real life animals, they could have been inspired by other kinds of birds. Just because cassowaries are more 'dinosaur-like' doesnt discount the fact that birds are an incredibly diversely colored and patterned group of animals. There is plenty of potential for other colors in dinosaurs when looking at modern ones.

In fact, i would argue that the fossil evidence we have shows that dinosaurs could have been more brightly colored and distinctly patterned than the ones in the show, at least. While there haven't been bright yellow or blue dinos found, there has been evidence of brighter reds and browns, some greens and purples, iridescent like feathers, and more distinct patterns like stripes on several dinos.

It kind of baffles me how they were able to make leaps like the dreadnoughtus air sacs, but they weren't willing to make the dinosaurs a little brighter? I mean, so much paleo art nowadays depicts dinos in vibrant colors, i dont think it would be too much of a stretch.

Tldr, i love prehistoric planet and i think it has done a lot for the perception and depiction of dinosaurs as real life animals, i just wish that it didnt associate looking 'realistic' with 'looking gray' as much as it does, especially considering the amount of potential traits for sexual display dinosaurs had, and the colors of living birds and fossil evidence of dinosaur colors.

[cypressure]

Flocking 6/14/24 -- Koreanosaurus + Pikaia + Istiodactylus + Turokjara