A Forest Encounter. This is a piece depicting a forest environment near the #Bahariya Delta. I wanted to produce a piece of #paleoart showing #Spinosaurus in a forest, away from water, and I also wanted to show just how massive some of the trees would have been. #paleobotany
Yeeee! Lots of plant mini sketches! #paleobotany #palnts #paleoart #bahariya #sciart twitter.com/JulianPalaeoAR…
I'm working on something big-ish atm which'll hopefully be useful, but unfortunately I'm not sure when it'll be finished (hopefully soon). So to hold you over till then here's another one of the diagrams from it! #paleobotany #paleoart #plants #Spinosaurus #FossilFriday
I've done a bit more work on Bahariya Formation fossil #plants. This is an infographic showing the possible distributions of different plants and their rough sizes and life habits. These are based on both macro and microfossils. #paleobotany #paleoart #paleontology #Spinosaurus
As usual I've gotten a little carried away with this, but I am really enjoying this silhouette size/ecology chart! It'll take a little longer than planned to finish though, but will hopefully be useful . #paleoart #paleobotany #plants #Spinosaurus #BahariyaFormation
Finished for now! Behold! The marvelous diversity of #Angiosperm leaves from the #Bahariya Formation of Egypt! These are all from #plants which coexisted with #Spinosaurus. #paleoart #FossilFriday #paleobotany #paleontology
Happy #StPatrickDay and happy #FossilFriday! I thought I'd share an illustration I've done for @Palaeofox/ PalaeoGames new TTRPG sourcebook! palaeogames.com This is #Marsilea, a type of aquatic #fern found both today and during the Mesozoic.#paleobotany #paleoart #botany
It's so nice to be doing some #palaeobotanical reconstructions again! Tonight I'm doing a little bit of work on #Anomozamites angustifolium, a #bennettitalean leaf taxon from the late #Triassic. #paleobotany #plants #paleoart
Just out: a new 400 million year old landscape reconstruction I completed to accompany a #naturecommunications study showing that Earth was much cooler before the rise of forests than expected #paleobotany #paleoart nature.com/articles/s4146…
Haven't been very productive this year in the art department (although I have done a bunch of stuff I can't yet share), but here's my scrambling attempt at an #artvsartist2022. #paleobotany #paleoart #plants #sciart
Happy #FossilFriday (hopefully not the last one here). I've nothing new, so here's a blog post I wrote last year on the #Conifers of the Crato Formation! Anyway, I hope to continue to see you all here. Toodles #paleobotany #paleontology #paleoart palaeoflora.blogspot.com/2021/08/conife…
However, by the end of the Devonian the evolution of a more complex vascular arrangements allowed land plants to grow larger and live further away from water. The evolution of the first seed plants at this time also allowed plants to grow in dryer soils. #paleobotany #paleoart
Happy #FossilFriday everyone. This week I'm sharing a couple of paintings I recently made to promote a new piece of research by @BoudaLab et al. (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…) These two paintings are from the Early and Late Devonian. #paleobotany #botany #palaeontology #paleoart
Early Devonian land plants are weird... also most Cooksonia species are tiny! #paleobotany #paleoart #plants #botany #Devonian #cooksonia
Been looking at some of the #HellCreek liriodendroids recently and thought I might have a go at restoring a #Liriodendrites #flower. I've restored it as an intermediate between #Archaeanthus and #Liriodendron. #paleoart #paleobotany #plants #cretaceous #dinosaur
Another update: up to 60 plants now! I'm really pleased with how this is starting to look? Can't wait for it to be finished! #paleoart #paleobotany #botany #plants #Anchiornis #WIP
Update on my Plantiornis (aka, new #palaeobotanical profile picture). I'm currently at around 40 different plants and I've done a VERY rough coloured version to give you an idea of what it'll look like when finished. #paleoart #paleobotany #plants #botanicalart #anchiornis #WIP
