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Extinct Plants Paleoart
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A resource for #plant #paleoart
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paulmollon.bsky.social
Respectfully submitted for your approval #sundaystunday yet another posting of WIP oil painting “Illusion of Still Water” 24 x 36 aka “The Beast”🙄😝 #art #tradionalart #artyear #artshare #blueskyart #botanicalart
More evolves as the painting progresses. Subtle details of the plant mater emerges from the illusion of water on top. The stones beneath become apparent. Water Lilly Pads seem to float or are partially submerged. Reflections of the plants can be seen on the water surface. The Burnt Umber underpainting is taking control and creating a warm feeling to the painting, a sense of being outside in the warm Sun.
November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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dynamoterror.bsky.social
Yesterday’s flocking #paleostream sketches, in shadowy forms: Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champsosaurus, and Genyornis. No I don’t have a favorite. #paleoart #pleistocene #cretaceous #paleozoic
Black-and-white pencil sketches on a piece of paper, depicting four prehistoric animals. All are fully black, as if made of shadows. The Lepidodendron tree, Baryonyx, and Champsosaurus are all tiny and concentrated in the upper left corner, while a much larger Genyornis takes up the bottom-right half of the page while looking directly at the viewer with blank white eyes.
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
The size charts this time were a collaborative effort between @montanoceratops.bsky.social,
@seismic-shrimp.bsky.social @sassypn.bsky.social
and me. As you can see there the local insect fauna had some bangers. When you want large insect interacting with dinosaurs/pterosaurs: this is your place!
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
typical Solnhofen fauna form a long corridor through southern Germany but localities in France show similar preservation. The Atlmühltal Formation has iconic taxa like Archaeopteryx and Pterodactylus and was therefore the first of these formations we covered.
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
and bennettitaleans are the most common plants. The beaches were probably blinding white, consisting of sand that formed from broken down corals and sponges, as these islands were often not much more than reefs peaking above the waves. Formations/localities that housed the...
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
Popular images of the Solnhofen islands show them as tropical paradises, often with cliffs and tall trees. The opposite appears to be the case. The islands were probably small, arid, flat and had vegetation that can be better described as shrubbery. Small conifers...
(Europa Island for reference)
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
All of these creatures being preserved in marine sediments. For one it makes it possible to show all the cool pterosaurs and other stem birds from here. On the other hand, more importantly, it offers the possibility to show the environment many of these animals occupied.
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
And here the results from the Solnhofen #paleostream! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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impulseimpact.bsky.social
back on #paleostream flocking
this time we got lepidodendron, baryonyx, champsosaurus and genyornis, still testing the vector style
#paleoart
November 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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velociraptor2005.bsky.social
#PaleoStream
Flocking Together

Lepidodendron/Baryonyx
Champsosaurus/Genyornis
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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sauriancyh.bsky.social
other #paleostream sketches
Digital drawing in a style mimicking chinese ink painting. Lepidodendron tree in the foreground with scales on its bark and insects flying around the canopy. More trees and hills can be seen in the distance. Baryonyx submerged in water with only its head on the surface, a Leptocleidus observes from below. Champsosaurus swimming near the water's surface, while a flock of flying Cryodrakon cast shadows from above.
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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ultraluther.bsky.social
Flocking!
Lepidodendron (the trees), Baryonyx, Champsosaurus, Genyornis

#paleoart #sciart #paleostream
A digital painting of some Scale Trees in a Carboniferous landscape A digital drawing of a Baryonyx holding a dead baby Iguanodon in its mouth A digital painting of a Champsosaurus with the most handsome smile, swimming towards the viewer A digital drawing of a Genyornis
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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bornulhu.bsky.social
On today's flocking #paleostream
Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champosaurus and Genyornis
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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palaeojules.bsky.social
Congratulations to @jeremywyman.bsky.social et al 2025 for the publication of their Oxroadia paper! And thanks for bringing me onboard to do some restorations of this relative of Lepidodendron and Isoëtes from the Carboniferous of Scotland.
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
#FossilFriday #paleobotany
a figure showing a life restoration of an adult oxroadia, which has many sinuous green stem branching across the ground, and two smaller diagrams of a juvenile plant and a close up of the rooting system.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
Production of root suckers in #Glossopteridales from the late Permian of #Antarctica

New #AJB research by Anne-Laure Decombeix & Rudolph Serbet

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

#plantscience #glossopterids #paleobotany #fossils #FossilFriday
Cross sections of a Vertebraria root emitting a non-Vertebraria lateral interpreted as the stem of a sucker shoot.
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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watanabetakao.bsky.social
Well, today is a holiday, so I'm taking my time enjoying my art. Since this piece is digitally colored, it'll be finished soon. Unlike analog art, it gets done much faster💪

#Illustration
#LineArt
#CommentPls
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
Results from the Flocking #paleostream!
Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champsosaurus and Genyornis.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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aldpaleo.bsky.social
Check our paper with @paleobotanist.bsky.social on root suckering in a Permian glossopterid from Antarctica 🌳⛏️🇦🇶 It's the 1st report of root suckering in this group & the oldest in the fossil record
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... 🧵1/5
#paleobotany #botany
@umramap.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
Production of root suckers in Glossopteridales from the late Permian of Antarctica
Premise The Glossopteridales are an extinct group of seed plants that dominated mid to high latitude floras of the supercontinent Gondwana during the Permian (298–251 million years ago). Reconstruct.....
doi.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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birdtooth.studio
If you see this, post a dinosaur!

TFW you realize like half your #paleoart isn't dinosaurs lol (I still have plenty though)
A digital illustration of a male and female pair of Confuciusornis sitting in a Gingko apodes tree, painted in a style reminiscent of classical naturalist illustrations. A digital portrait sketch of a Tyrannosaurus on a paper texture background. The subject is uncolored but for white sketchy highlights and is silhouetted against a colorful brush-stroke-y wash. Two renders of a low poly, N64 style model of a Microraptor from 2022. The one in the background is posed with its wings folded and mouth closed, the one in the foreground has spread wings and an open mouth. A textile pattern featuring several taxa from the Jehol Biota in several environments, rendered in a style and similar to Neolithic Chinese pottery in warm tans, red, and black.
October 22, 2024 at 2:50 AM
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conniemenefee.bsky.social
Magnolia
Aging ... bringing its own beauty ...
Magnolia with petals brown and curved in - the reproductive center is on its journey to seeds Magnolia with petals brown and starting to curve in - the reproductive center is on its journey to seeds
October 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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markwitton.bsky.social
To brighten up a wet and rainy #FossilFriday, here's my take on the recently described drepanosaur Mirasaura grauvogeli. It's shown among the conifer Voltzia, a plant found in abundance in the same beds as Mirasaura. The pointed sail shape is based on fossil data...

#sciart #fossils #paleontology
October 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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lapworthmuseum.bsky.social
It's October now and we are getting autumnal vibes from this pteridosperm specimen, also known as a seed fern.

What are your favourite things about autumn? 🍁

Image by Greg Milner.

#LapworthRocks #FloraFriday #Autumn #fossils #fossil #fern #palaeontology #paleontology #museum #geologyrocks
October 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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peterjwagner3.bsky.social
If you know anyone interested in starting a Master's project working on ammonoid phylogenetics (or the phylogenetics of a mollusc group spanning the OAE2 event in the Late Cretaceous), then ask them to get in touch with me.

The situation is a little tricky, as it would be funded by the remainder…
September 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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sistersharon.bsky.social
A "proper" #botanicalillustration this time. This is the #sunflower #botany on full display.
#Watercolour #watercolor #art #SciArt #botanical #nature #yellow
A watercolour painting showing the botany of a sunflower
August 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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jadafitch.bsky.social
Day 25 of #AvianAugust2025, Birds of Hawaii, hosted by @cookiedoves: ʻōʻōʻāʻā or Kauaʻi ʻōʻō (Moho braccatus)

#AvianAugust #hawaiianbirds #birdsofhawaii #hawaii #birds #birdart #illustration #ooaa #kauaioo #moho #hawaiianhoneyeater #extinctbirds #alakaiswamplobelia #lobelia #botanicalart
August 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM