#ornithischia
In the late 1990s a partial skeleton of a ceratopsian was discovered in New Mexico, USA. These remains were initially thought to belong to Torosaurus, but after more of the specimen was recovered in the mid-2010s it became clear the bones actually represented an entirely new species of horned dinosaur – officially named in 2022asSierraceratops turneri.
Sierraceratops lived during the Late Cretaceous, around 72 million years ago, in what at the time was the southern region of the island continent of Laramidia. About 4.6m long (~15’), it had fairly short chunky brow horns, long pointed cheek horns, and a relatively large frill.
It was part of a unique lineage of ceratopsians that were endemic to southern Laramidia, with its closest known relatives being Bravoceratopsfromwestern TexasandCoahuilaceratopsfromnorthern Mexico.
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Some paleoart I did for my new job of one of my favourite dinos, P. lakustai!
[ID. A digitally painted profile of the face of Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai, a ceratopsian with a large boss above it’s nose and a smaller boss above its eye, and a single “unicorn” spike on the middle portion of its frill. It is illustrated in browns with some darker stripes and an eyespot on the frill.
The skull used for reference is illustrated in flat black and white in the background and is overlain with the text: “Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai/Lakusta’s Thick-Nosed reptile from Pipestone Creek, Grande Prairie”. END]
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CORONOSAURUS
“Crown lizard”
Late Cretaceous, 77 million years ago
This ceratopsid was originally thought to be a species of Centrosaurus. But despite the requisite centrosaurine nose horn, plus additional barbs on its frill (“epiparietals”), Coronosaurus would still have had no trouble wearing a g*****n mask.
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My first art is done in the start of 2022. A Baby Hypacrosaurus as the start of new year, and even redrawn of my old new year art with a baby hadrosaurid which was done back in 10 years of 2012. #sketchbookapp #sketchbook #myart #hypacrosaurus #hadrosauridae #dinosaur #artistsoninstagram #ornithopoda #cerapoda #neornithischia #ornithischia #dinosauria
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After long time of getting off my back, I was just sketching of a Chinese stegosaur called Gigantspinosaurus sichuanensis (meaning “Giant-spined reptile from Sichuan”).
The reason why I’m already sketch this specie is mainly because the social media such as Twitter is ask everyone one (including me) to choose “what are your favorite prehistoric animals named on the year you were born?” So to me however, the only one who were named in the year of my born is “Gigantspinosaurus” in 1992. At first, I wasn’t a really aware of the stegosaur with a huge shoulder blade, but thanks to playing the first two Jurassic World Evolution game which was featured the latter, I’m honestly okay with this fella.
On the side note Gigantspinosaurus isn’t the only one who were named in 1992 the same year where I was born. On top of that, they were proto-avians such as Patogornis and Iberomesornis, a marine reptile such as Kronosaurus are named in 1992.
Based on incomplete skeleton of Gigantspinosaurus by GetAwayTrike, along two other stegosaurs to fill in with missing parts, these are included a small club-like tail with thagomizer of huayangosaurus and a closely related specie such as a incomplete skull of isaberrysaura as perfect fit and size to the head.
