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*Island in the Sun plays in the background*
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For a long time there were no hadrosaurid fossils known from Africa.
This seemed to mainly be due to the limits of the geography of their time. Hadrosaurs evolved and flourished during the late Cretaceous, when Africa was isolated from all the other continents, and they didn't seem to have ever found their way across the oceanic barriers.
…Until in 2021 a small hadrosaur was discovered in Morocco, a close relative of several European species, showing that some of these dinosaurs did reach northwest Africa just before the end of the Cretaceous - and with no land bridges or nearby island chains to hop along, they must have arrived from Europe via swimming, floating, or rafting directly across several hundred kilometers of deep water.
And now another hadrosaur has just been described from the same time and place.
Minqaria bata lived in Morocco at the very end of the Cretaceous, about 67 million years ago. Only known from a partial skull, its full appearance and body size is unknown, but it probably measured around 3.5m long (~11'6") – slightly larger than its previously discovered relative, but still very small for a hadrosaur. It might represent a case of insular dwarfism, since at the time Morocco may have been an island isolated from the rest of northwest Africa.
Along with its close relative Ajnabia, and at least one other currently-unnamed larger hadrosaur species, Minqaria seems to be part of a rapid diversification of hadrosaurs following their arrival in Morocco, adapting into new ecological niches in their new habitat where the only other herbivorous dinosaur competition was titanosaurian sauropods, and the only large predators were abelisaurs.
If the K-Pg mass extinction hadn't happened just a million years later, who knows what sort of weird African hadrosaurs we could have ended up with?
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Edmond, the Edmontosaurus mummy.
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Portrait of the famous duck-billed dinosaur Corythosaurus casuarius
#paleoart#dinosaur#dinosaurs#paleontology#corythosaurus#hadrosaur#ornithischian#orinthopoda#ornithopod#ornithopods#ornithischians#hadrosaurs#lambeosauridae
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Paleostream 14/01/2024
results of today's Paleostream!!!
today we sketched Guanlingasaurus, Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis, Orodromaeus, and F̵r̵u̵i̵t̵a̵d̵e̵n̵s̵ Aquilonifer
#paleoart#paleontology#digital art#artists on tumblr#digital artwork#palaeoart#digital illustration#sciart#id in alt text#dinosaur#ichthyosaur#invertebrate#ornithopod#Guanlingasaurus#Tyrannosaurus#Tyrannosaurs mcraeensis#Orodromaeus#Aquilonifer#Paleostream
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Thescelosaurus neglectus by Anthony J. Hutchings.
#paleoart#paleontology#dinosaurs#fossil#cretaceous#fossils#thescelosaurus#ornithopod#ornithischian#feathered dinosaur
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We all love a good theropod, but I'll always be a Tri-guy at heart. So here's triceratops, covered in quills.
#illustration#art#triceratops#ornithopod#paleoart#digital ink#digital illustration#paleoblr#jurassic park#ceratopsian#hell creek formation#triceratops is covered in quills
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Muttaburrasaurus got added to prehistoric kingdom party
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Zalmoxes orb squad
#LISTEN... THEY ARE VERY ROUND#these could be smol or adults#if you're wondering why I've just been doing silly paleoart it's because I get the seratonins from them#zalmoxes#prehistoric planet#prehistoricplanet#paleoart#paleo art#paleoblr#dinosaurs#ornithopod#olessan art
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Results from the #paleostream!
Iani, Nihohae, Volia and Gonkoken.
#sciart#paleostream#paleoart#palaeoblr#cretaceous#dinosaur#dinosaurs#utah#dolphin#spear toothed dolphin#volia#ornithopod
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Good Mother
“A mother Maiasaura peeblesorum watches over her brood of hungry hatchlings.”
Probably the most wholesome paleo-sketch I’ve ever drawn so far. Maiasaura remains one of my absolute favorite hadrosaurs ever since I read about them when I was little. I look at the baby fossils and just melt imagining them in their nest, squeaking for food like modern day birds. The adults are also a delight to draw, with those squarish faces, the wide beaks and thick necks, very aesthetically pleasing profile. The ultimate Mesozoic cow to me!
This was my opening drawing for my new tan paper sketchbook. I think I prefer this over the grey toned one, feels warmer. I used Copic and W&N markers and ink pens, basically all the browns I have and a dash of pink.
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#palaeoblr#artists on tumblr#paleoart#dinosaurs#baby dinosaurs#maiasaura#hadrosaur#ornithopod#palaeoart#dinosaur art#extinct fauna#prehistoric fauna#mesozoic#my art
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Rough Thumbnail_Uteodon. Digital, 2023.
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Day 1: Gonkoken nanoi (Own choice)
#paleoart#paleoblr#palaeoblr#dinosaur#paleontology#archovember#archovember2023#dinovember#digital art#traditional art#art#Gonkokennanoi#Gonkoken#Hadrosauroidea#Hadrosaur#Ornithopod
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Impressions of the two main species of the giant ornithopod dinosaur Edmontosaurus, which lived in the Maastrichtian epoch of the Late Cretaceous in what is now North America; E.regalis at the top, and E.annectens at the bottom.
#paleoart#dinosaur#dinosaurs#paleontology#edmontosaurus#ornithischian#ornithischia#ornithopod#hadrosaur#cretaceous#late cretaceous#maastrichtian
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trick or treat?!!?
Charonosaurus!
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