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Crassamara v2by ~pilsator

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With the infamous "Triebold caenagnathid" soon being described and probably named, I thought I give it another try, as i didn't like my previous attempt at all. Matt Lamanna and colleagues will publish it probably within the course of this year, while it's been well-known to dinosaur enthusiasts for quite a time. Interesting features noted in the SVP abstract include the last three caudal verts being "greatly modified" but not quite fused into a fake pygostyle/"caudostyle", so I gave this guy a fairly impressive tail fan (even more impressive for an animal tipping the scales at >3 m without it). I originally wanted to depict the tail being further tilted upwards/forwards, as oviraptorosaur tails were surprisingly mobile, but that fell victim to balance-related and spatial (speaking in terms of the size of the paper sheet) issues. The long, thin feathers sprouting from the pelvic area are inspired by some older work made by Dan Bensen. No idea what they're properly called in modern birds.

Crouched into a low-to-the-ground posture, it's probably searching for something tasty-looking. I imagine caenagnathids like this one as generalist omnivores.

In fact, it's probably the single dinosaur I've drawn most often without ever being satisfied. I'm still not quite happy with it, but this attempt of mine comes closest.

Name of the deviation hat tip to and courtesy of Will Svensen and what this animal's called in his fiction of Gondolend.

The skeletal reconstruction I used was made by Scott Hartman.

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~Dino-Mario Nov 21, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Gorgeous work!!!

~pilsator Nov 22, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thanks, man!

~JWArtwork Jul 22, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Beautiful!

That must have been hell of a job with all those feathers!

~pilsator Jul 22, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thanks a lot! I don't take that long drawing those, and tend to think that I could improve by being less lazy and more scrupulous with detailing them once they look reasonably "done".

~JWArtwork Jul 24, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Well, I think they look great already!

Certainly not something I could do!

~MrAverage101 May 30, 2012 Hobbyist

FRENCH THE LLAMA THAT'S AWESOME

~pilsator Jun 5, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Uhm ... thanks, I guess

~ZEGH8578 May 28, 2012

*treating Iguanodon as a very inclusive _genus_, [man i hate typos that completely remove the meaning of my statement

~ZEGH8578 May 28, 2012

Heh, I don't have a scanner here, I will probably upload them sometime this week.
The main problem, I think, with Paul's lumping actions, isn't that they are necesarily "totally wrong" (I happen to agree with most of them) but it's that he isn't a professional paleontologist, and therefore he has no duty to prove that his decision is correct. Personally, I find the opposite to be more problematic - to create new genera for everything new - such as Linheraptor and Tsaagan, which in my humble and unprofessional opinion is nothing but Velociraptor, but two distinct species. I really don't know why these warranted entirely new genus names, considering Leopards and Tigers belong to the same genus, among extant animals. Sometimes I suspect research becomes entirely too emotional, people get posessive of their finds, and their decisions. I've seen grown men "pull rank" on each others, in paleontological debate, regardless of good points made. This is one of the reasons I'm a bit reluctant to flaunt my agreement to a controversial decision

~pilsator May 28, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Honestly, I'm glad people have stopped pretending genera are countable, real things. Everything's prone to paraphyly and reshuffling. While I agree that GSP's lumping standard was a nice way to make non-avian dino taxonomy "comparable" with, say, mammalian, it was a confusing move, and ultimately a matter of semantics while pretending it's more than semantics.

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