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Sobek the Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus at the Field Museum in Chicago.
August 8, 2023
taken on iPhone 14 Pro
(edit: oKAY WOW THANK YOU GUYS! Glad to see fellow Sobek lovers. Also I did not know his name was Sobek but I am so happy to have found out and thus have added his name <3)
Spinosaurs by Anthony J. Hutchings: Riparovenator and Ceratosuchops, Riparovenator, Ceratosuchops and his brain, White Rock spinosaurid, Irritator challengeri, Irritator chasing pterosaur.
Theres something really mystical about this massive theropod. Im sure one day we'll discover a holotype that is mostly complete and a lot of questions will be answered. The last big thing I remember hearing was that it had a paddle tail. On a broader note, Spinosauridae to me has some of the most interesting looking dinosaurs out there with their long snouts and (sometimes) big arching spine bones.
Also it appears Ive once again drawn two dinosaurs who never would have met one another lol.
Hailing from Brazil during the Early Cretaceous, this spinosaurid's name derives from the fact that it's nearly complete skull had been heavily damaged and altered by the collectors who found it (along with a reference to Professor Challenger in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. ). Based on the remains we do have, Irritator leans on the smaller side for spinosaurids, estimated to be between 20 to 26 feet long. At the same time, though, the specimen was found to be a juvenile, so it potentially grew to be much larger as an adult.