Extinct Creature Sketches #1 (Patreon)
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So the first drawing is the only one I managed to do when I went to visit the ROM in Toronto! It's Futalognkosaurus, which is about 85 ft long and used to live in Argentina (before it was Argentina, of course.) It's a titanosaurid sauropod from the late-ish Cretaceous, and it ate plants and stuff. Sauropods are Very Cool
The second set of sketches are some Triassic weirdos. The Triassic was full of weirdos. These guys are called Aetosaurs (EAT-o-sors), they are amored herbivorous archosaurs that lived in the mid-to-late Triassic-- they aren't related to any other armored herbivores, despite the resemblance! During the Triassic, the archosaurs evolved into a bunch of different groups to fill the niches left over from a mass extinction at the end of the Permian (which came right before the Triassic), and one of those groups was the aetosaurs. Another one of those groups was the dinosaurs! The dinosaurs kept going, but the aetosaurs did not.
They use their cute snouts to dig up plants!