A Lystrosaurus murrayi standing in front of some Early Triassic plants

Here’s Lystrosaurus murrayi ignoring the Great Dying, the mother of mass extinctions, just getting on with its parrot-pig-reptile-bulldog business
#paleoart #sciart #dicynodont #triassic

The lateral view of a skull of the dicynodont, Ishigualastia jenseni, on display at the Brigham Young University Museum of Paleontology in Provo, Utah. This skull was discovered in 1964 from the Ishigualasto Formation, Argentina.

Presenting a skull of the #dicynodont, Ischigualastia, at the BYU Museum of Paleontology in Provo, Utah 🇺🇸 for this #FossilFriday. This ancient, beaked herbivore was the size of a cow & lived in Argentina 🇦🇷 during the Late #Triassic (~230 Ma).

#Paleontology #Science

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Oudenodon grandis, a #dicynodont from the Late #Permian of #SouthAfrica

#paleoart #paleontology #digitalart

Eoraptor and Ischigualastia (Dicynodont) are best buds of the Triassic period.

Old post: Nov 8, 2021

#eoraptor #dicynodont #triassicperiod #ischigualastia #Dinovember #paleoart

A mounted skeleton of the dicynodont, Lystrosaurus, on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.

Here’s a snapshot of the plucky little #dicynodont, #Lystrosaurus on display at @mnhn.fr for this #FossilFriday. This distant forerunner of mammals was one of the few animals on land to survive the worst mass extinction event of all time, the Permo-Triassic extinction.

#paleontology #science

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Representing prehistoric India with the dicynodont Wadiasaurus
#paleoart #paleo #Triassic #dicynodont

I am installing the life size 3D printed dicynodont skeleton on display in the Field Museum Grainger Science Hub. Grey bones represent real fossils from the bonebed, blue bones are resized or reflected bones.

The fossil dicynodont skull in a plaster cradle custom made for the display. In the background are shin bones that I thin sectioned to tell us information on how old these animals were when they died around 240 million years ago

Augmented reality of a dicynodont skeleton in Stanley Field Hall.

A reconstruction of Dolichuranus in the river beds of what is now Tanzania some 240 million years ago. Image credit to Mark Witton who is thanked for this artistic reconstruction.

Happy #FossilFriday

A few weeks ago we opened the first exhibit I helped design based on my work on bone histology and taphonomy of a #dicynodont bonebed from Tanzania!

If you are passing by the #FieldMuseum, go check out the #GraingerScienceHub

Huge thanks to @markwitton.bsky.social for 🎨🖼️

🌍🦖 Lisowicia bojani was the largest synapsid ever!

This elephant-sized 🐘 dicynodont roamed Triassic Poland (~210 MYA), reaching 15 ft long & 9 tons! 💪

Its discovery shattered ideas that only dinosaurs got huge then. 🏗️

#PrehistoricGiants #Fossils #Lisowicia #Synapsid #Dicynodont #Triassic

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS 02 - Placerias 🦕⛰🏞🌄

A dicynodont tribe of Placerias travelers wander through the Late Carnian Triassic lands in search for a new place for settlement! 🪨⛰

(I noticed i misspelled Placerias on the piece ;/ )

#dinosaurart #dicynodont #saurian #anthroart #scalie #furryart

Myosaurus gracilis

Myosaurus gracilis (artist’s hand for scale)

Myosaurus gracilis (2025)

#sciart #paleoart #myosaurus #dicynodont #triassic #katbergformation
#paleontology #stemmammals
#extinctlife

I somehow managed to post this without using #sciart tags.

#dicynodont #rhynchosaur #aetosaur

Four black-and-white pencil sketches of extinct animals on a piece of paper, arranged in a zig-zag from the top left to the bottom right. At the top is a Zygophyseter whale (viewed from below) carrying a large billfish by its bill, below and to the right of that is a front-view of the mouth-open head of Scutosaurus, below and to the left of that is a wide-hipped Lisowicia walking away from the viewer, and below and to the right of that is a highly exaggerated Patagomaia. It has an elephant trunk, long caracal-like ears, short and thick arms (that it’s walking on), horse-like legs carried high off the ground, and a short, bulbous tail. As Patagomaia is known from just a few scraps of leg bones, I took some absurd creative liberties.

Tonight’s four flocking-together #Paleostream sketches: a Zygophyseter carrying a billfish, the screaming head of Scutosaurus, rear-view Lisowicia, and Patagomaia (I took a little creative liberty). #paleoart #whale #pareisaur #dicynodont #mammal

It’s #FossilFriday and for #Paleostream flocking we have
#Zygophyseter, #Scutosaurus, #Lisowicia, and #Patagomaia

#mammal #parareptile #whale #dicynodont

Osteology and relationships of the Late Triassic giant dicynodont Lisowicia Abstract. Unexpectedly abundant remains of herbivorous therapsids in the Late Triassic strata of southern Poland have significantly supplemented knowledge

Nice to see this in-depth description of #Lisowicia, the giant dicynodont from the Late #Triassic & largest known nonmammalian #synapsid. #Dicynodont synapsids are a favourite of mine, so happy to see more attention on these weird & wonderful Permo-Triassic beasts.

academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Following the new paper on the End-Permian mass extinction, here’s Aulacephalodon, a #dicynodont from the late #Permian of South Africa 🇿🇦 for this #FossilFriday.

Dicynodonts were very diverse herbivores on land at this time & badly hit by the extinction, as only a few survived into the Triassic.