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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 9h

Placenticeras: disc-shaped, probably fast-swimming ammonite, thus the massive funnel #ammonite #cephalopod #cretaceous #invertebrate #mesozoic #digitalpainting

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It has now been a year since the great illustrator Drew Struzan passed away. As a sort of tribute, we worked on an exhibition poster: Germany's oldest "Saurian"/"Ursaurier" assemblage Remigiusberg. #pelycosaur #DrewStruzan #Permian #iconicart #tribute #posterart #illustrationart #drewstruzanart

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Megaloceros in the tundra-woodland transition of today's Central Europe #pleistocene #IceAge #megaloceros #megafauna #quaternary #oilpainting

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

so, not predation but foreplay?

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Alligator catching a gar: Could be Holocene, but also Late Cretaceous, or any time between #alligator #catch #holocene #LateCretaceous #sketchbook

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Pantelosaurus slab went to the Museum in Chemnitz, soon on exhibition. 1st press event with living phylo, joined by officials from the Geological Servey, city, museum, and State Minister! sl1nk.com/ly9xl91 #pantelosaurus #synapsid #pelycosaur #permian #museum #NaturalHistory #Saxony #vertabrate

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Sternberg Museum Paleontology @sternbergpaleo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sternberg Museum curator of paleontology, Dr. Amanda Peng, has a new paper out today in Journal of Paleontology on diversity and disparity in John Day Formation assemblages. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Diversity and disparity in mammalian fossil assemblages of the John Day Formation, Oregon, USA | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core

Diversity and disparity in mammalian fossil assemblages of the John Day Formation, Oregon, USA

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of the latest studies reconstructing Dunkleosteus explicitly left out the lip question. But this isso very likely. #fossilfish #dunkleosteus #Devonian #Paleozoico #placoderm #arthrodira #armoredfish #underthesea #artandscience

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Promissum was a large Ordovician conodont with more to tell than just the usual tooth-like oralconodont elements. The similarity to lampreys and moreover to hagfish was not intended, but asound possibility form the published data. #conodont #vertebrate #ordovician #cyclostomi #hagfish #research

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What a helpful comment, thank you! Indeed, the tail was not convincing, but the sketch series didn't offer time to get into paradigmatic origins. So there was no other quick'n'dirty way to rely on what's possibly accepted. Thanks for argument, rather than authority! Hopefully preparing a correction

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Psarolepis - yes, another sketch - right after lobe-finned fish were invented around the late Silurian, so somehow representative for a certain stage of our ancestry #fish #fossilfish #coelacanth #sarcopterygii #evolution #Paleozoic #Silurian #Devonian

Psarolepis, an early bony fish with fin spines, shown with open mouth and camouflage coloring

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Orthograptus - unfinished sketch - using the documentary drawings of Ruedemann (1895) and the functional interpretation decipted by Maletz (2014) #graptolite #Ordovician #invertebrate #plankton #research #Palaeozoic #fossil #digitalpainting #sketchbook #drawing

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Partly, yes. Ichthyosaurs may have been faster, while pliosaurs would rarely feed on belemnites. The bigger they got - starting from human-sized neonates - the more bigger reptiles should be on the menu. And big pachycormids maybe

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

thanks. We're not sure if you've counted this as AI based. This piece is 100% self-made digital painting (though gaining help from a likewise self-made sculpture). Moreover, what details - beyond rendering sketched outlines - could be in there? Scales are questionable, especially on the snout

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

found an older scene from 2017 or so: Protorosaurus on the Zechstein beach. Ordered but never paid for. And not because of the mistakes. #research #protorosaurus #zechstein #artandscience #order #palaeontology #digitalart

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Coloring Page for a Jurassic Reef www.palaeonavix.org/index.php/gr... #solnhofen #jurassic #fossils #coloring #coloringpage #reef

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

See through my eyes! (for we’re all Eutheriodontia – peace be with you) www.palaeonavix.org/index.php/sc... #cynodont #Therapsid #sculpting #modellbau #PeaceBeWithYou #eyes #paleontology #research

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The projects to come… A dvinosaur was more of a fish than thankfully accepting tetrapodity #amphibians #temnospondyl #digitalart #research #tetrapods #transition #artandscience #fish #newproject

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Opsieobuthus, the scorpion from what is now the Chemnitz Petrified Forest www.palaeonavix.org/index.php/pa... #permian #scorpion #PetrifiedForest #digitalpainting #artandscience

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Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Sam Neill's iconic role as Dr Alan Grant in #JurassicPark has been a huge inspiration to generations of children & palaeontologists (incl. myself), so Michael Mills (@heapsgood.bsky.social) & I decided we should write a tribute to the dinosaur man theconversation.com/how-sam-neil... 1/2 🧵

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How Sam Neill’s Jurassic Park performance inspired a generation of paleontologists

As Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, Sam Neill portrayed a scientist who was authentic, normal and relatable. For many budding paleontologists, it was life changing.

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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Some things are only visible once the spotlight has faded: Archaeopteryx’ wing detail during the golden hour #archaeopteryx #feathereddinosaur #solnhofen #jurassic #comingsoon #ShopNow #Spotlight #wings #goldenhour

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