hannahmcgill:nayialovecat:rawrdinosaurfriends: Carboniferous friends.Lineart is available to color u
hannahmcgill:nayialovecat:rawrdinosaurfriends: Carboniferous friends.Lineart is available to color under CC BY-NC 3.0 license.[img id=Digital artwork depicting a slice of the Carboniferous period, 359.2-299 million years ago. A logo at the top of a globe with a ribbon encourages viewers to ‘spot ‘em all!’. The digital artwork contains over 250 Carboniferous organisms with lots of different colors and textures. The artist’s favorite organisms here are the shark with a pillar full of teeth on its head (stethacanthus), the 6-foot long centipede (Arthropleura), and edaphosaurus, an early synapsid with a big frill on its back. The organisms are displayed on a pre-Pangea map and large artistic conveniences were taken with regards to which things lived in Antarctica during the Carboniferous. Apologies for not listing every single organism, but rest assured, if you have a favorite animal or plant from the Carboniferous, it’s probably here somewhere!The second image is the same as the first, only it’s just lines, and ready for coloring. /end img id] It is beautiful!The Carboniferous is not my favourite geological period, I prefer the Cambrian (because of the trilobites), and the most important in my heart is the Triassic (the first frogs, horsetails, and the first pterosaurs)… But in Carbon, my beloved ostracodes had their golden age and there developed intensively goniatites, finally we also have insects. Unfortunately, the era of graptolites and trilobites is ending, which makes me sad.Sorry for possible naming errors. I wrote the text in Polish with the correct terms - but google translate could messed something up :) Thank you! I would not be able to distinguish any naming errors if there are any in your response. I am so thankful that it made you happy. Maybe someday I will have a Cambrian or a Triassic version of this, too!To generally note, I do not have paleontology expert backing on the research I did for this piece. There could be organisms I am missing or have misrepresented. I made it as an example of something I would like to someday create with an expert helping me out. For the time being, I only hope it brings joy. To the person who brought up tiktaalik in the tags: As far as I know, tiktaalik didn’t persist into the Carboniferous and is not depicted in the scene above, but I want to acknowledge the tiktaalik enthusiasm because I like them too. Here you go, a little visitor from the Devonian, with some low-effort lycopsids. I also saved some blank lines (CC BY-NC 3.0) if you want to color it! [img id 1 of 2: Digital artwork of a tiktaalik, which is a fish that has lobe-like fins allowing it to crawl across the ground. Scientists propose that the tiktaalik shares the common ancestor between fish and all existing tetrapods and is an example of a transitional fossil. The depicted tiktaalik is submerged with its lobe fins on the bottom of a shallow pond covered with gravel. Three ancient plants called lycopsids are arranged around the tiktaalik, and they look like weird green pitchforks with only two tines. The plants were probably not rendered very accurately because all of the reference I could find was crunched and hard to make out.img id 2 of 2 is the same image, but the colors are omitted so interested parties may color it for themself.] -- source link
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