palaeornithology:Tupandactylus imperator in the early evening sky.Spiritual successor to this piece
palaeornithology:Tupandactylus imperator in the early evening sky.Spiritual successor to this piece done back in September of 2015. The colour and integument of this restoration are based on an undescribed tapejarid cranium announced at EAVP last year - electron micrographs of the pycnofibers revealed rod-shaped, black-pigmented eumelanosomes, while micrographs of the crest showed an abundance of spherical, red-pigmented phaeomelanosomes. Tupandactylus hails from the Crato Formation of Brazil, and is named after the creator god of the Tupi and Guarani people.See full size here! -- source link
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