A male Carnotaurus leks in a clearing, flaunting his colourful horns and arms; two females have come to the clearing, but it's clear there's tension between them for who gets to mate with him.
After piling enough leaf litter and other decomposing vegetation to make a nest, the male Eoabelisaurus gifts his new mate a large chunk of meat he managed to tear from a carcass.
As many of us do so like extinct animals, I thought why not start a thread to share our favourite Mesozoic animals... By category?!
Remember, you can add or change any categories you like in your posts; the following is just how I do it;
Sauropodomorph: Apatosaurus
Ornithopod: Ouranosaurus...
On this season of giving, I give you the return of the Meso-posters, with a wide array of coleurosaurs;
Pelecanimimus polyodon, Shuvuuia deserti, Compsognathus longipes, Falcarius utahensis, Australovenator wintonensis, Gallimimus bullatus and Therizinosaurus cheloniformis.
Here's the first one I ever drew, second to be released, featuring these ceratosaurs;
- Ceratoaaurus nasicornis
- Elaphrosaurus bambergi
- Rugops primus
- Majungasaurus crenatissimus
- Carnotaurus sastrei
The first in my line of Mesozoic group charts, a collection of coelophysoids and dilophosaurids from the late Triassic and early Jurassic, featuring (front to back):
- Procompsognathus triassicus
- Coelophysis bauri
- Dilophosaurus wetherilli
- Cryolophosaurus ellioti