Coats of arms of each map I made so far of different or geologial periods: #Permian, #Triassic, #Jurassic, #Cretaceous and #Paleogene 🛡️ Can you guess which animal is represented on each one? 👀 #heraldry #medievalart #paleontology #prehistoricanimals #naturalhistory #dinosaurs

The Great Dying? Eh, doesn’t sound so great to us…😬

Wanna learn more? ⛏️
Head to bit.ly/permian-amphibian & tune in next week for another #FossilFriday feature from the Paleo Research Institute collection:
www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/vc/

#Fossil #Paleontology #Permian #EarthScience #Geology

Nueva ronda de ilustraciones dinosaurianas con monturas teropodianas, #tiranosaurios de sobremesa, #saurópodos blasfemos y hasta una escena #pérmica:
[🎨 @rumvolfoni.bsky.social, Keith Thomson, @orribec.bsky.social]

▶️ koprolitos.blogspot.com/2026/03/unas...
#dinosaur #permian #illustration

#FossilFriday
Branchiosaurus.
Fossil Amphibian.
Permian Period. 290 Mill. Years.
Odernheim/Glan in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

#Branchiosaurus #FossilAmphibian #Amphibian #fossil #permian #permianperiod

Cynodont side-profile.

#paleoart #Permian #digitalart #dinosaur #synapsid

Evolutionary radiation of large‐bodied gorgonopsians from the lower Abrahamskraal formation of South Africa The middle Permian represents a critical interval in therapsid evolution, when gorgonopsians emerged as some of the first specialized apex predators within terrestrial ecosystems. Despite their signi...

Macungo et al. present a new middle #Permian gorgonopsian, Jirahgorgon ceto, from the Abrahamskraal Fm of South Africa 🇿🇦 - its large size suggests the emergence of large #gorgonopsians earlier than expected!

🔗 anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#Paleontology #Science #Synapsid

A juvenile Dimetrodon giganhomogenes in an Early Permian forest of Walchia piniformis pines. The youngster looks over in astonishment as a Captorhinus aguti makes its escape beneath the safety of a fallen stump after it broken its tail off in the predators jaws.

1. The Fool

#paleoart #dimetrodon #sciart #captorhinus #permian

T.K. Arispe Store - 90's vibes rainbow Dimetrodon Features 6 mil calendered Vinyl and pressure sensitive adhesive. UV gloss laminate finish added to protect and preserve design print quality. Adequate for outd…

tkarispe.creator-spring.com/listing/90-s...

New design in my store! People really enjoyed my "Footy Pebbles" Dimetrodon, so now you can get this Technicolor guy on shirts, stickers, and more! #paleoart #Permian #Dimetrodon

WTAF is wrong with #adobe? Note that this image of 'Dimetrodon' can't be used in a 'misleading' way. It's very existence is misleading. Does no one ever check this AI slop? #permian #airart #dimetrodon

An aberrant stem tetrapod from the early Permian of Brazil Abstract. Early evolutionary history of tetrapods is typically divided into two major phases: an initial diversification of archaic stem tetrapod groups, a

Pardo et al. report a new stem tetrapod, Tanyka amnicola, from Brazil 🇧🇷 that survived into the early #Permian, with interesting implications for faunal #evolution across the Permo-Carboniferous in the Southern Hemisphere. ⬇️

#Paleontology #Fossils #Science

royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

At @museumoftherockies.bsky.social's Virtual Fossil Friday last week, the awesome Ruby Pines was blocking out the shapes for a Dimetrodon and she called the foot shapes "footy pebbles". MaggieJo then said she wanted to see a Fruity Pebbles-colored Dimetrodon, so... #paleoart #Permian #Dimetrodon

Early synapsids from the Cisuralian (lower Permian) Pedra de Fogo Formation, Parnaíba Basin, Brazil: the first definitive South American “pelycosaurs” The paleotropics of Euramerica provide nearly our entire picture of Permo–Carboniferous terrestrial tetrapod evolution. The geographic sampling bias inherent in this record obscures important event...

New paper by Angielczyk et al. reports new #synapsids from the early #Permian tetrapod fauna of the Pedra de Fogo Formation, Brazil 🇧🇷 - South America’s first pelycosaurs! ⬇️

#Paleontology #Fossils #Science

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Choco Diplocaulus! 🍫🦎
#penup #colorpalette #challenge #diplocaulus #amphibian #prehistoric #prehistoricanimal #permian #extinctanimal #brown #choco #chocolate #sketchbook

From paper: Co-occurrence of endophytic oviposition and Asteronomus maeandriformis in Autunia conferta. (a) Mass occurrence of oviposition scars, which likely housed unhatched eggs (NHMS Ap 37/5). (b) Sketch of (a) showing the distribution of the oviposition scars on the pinnule. (c–e) Oviposition scars with ovipositor slits (arrows) (NHMS Ap 37/5). (f) Oviposition and leaf mining on small Autunia conferta pinnules (MB.Pb.1979/0012). (g) Enlargement of the area in (f). Note the callus tissue surrounding the oviposition sites. (h) Leaf mines and oviposition scars on Autunia conferta (MB.Pb.1979/0014). (i) Irregularly distributed oviposition scars on Autunia conferta (MB.Pb.1979/0020).

From paper: Thin sections of Asteronomus maeandriformis in Autunia conferta from Crock, Thuringian Forest Basin, Germany. (a) Section through an Autunia conferta leaf (MB.Pb.1979/0188) with frass trail (box). The scrolled margins indicate the upper side of the pinnule. (b) Section through the frass trail in (a). Note the upper epidermis (arrow), which covers the tunnel. (c) Another example of a compressed tunnel in the upper parenchyma covered by the upper epidermis (arrow) (MB.Pb.1979/0179). (d) Transverse and longitudinal sections through endophytic frass trails in Autunia conferta (MB.Pb.1979/0188). (e, f) Longitudinal section through a frass trail (MB.Pb.1979/0069). Note the calcite-filled cracks and the thin calcite cover on the upper side of the leaves from shrinkage of the organic matter in (arrows in f).

Wow!

2025: Host-specific leaf-mining behaviour of holometabolous insect larvae in the early #Permian

#ichnology #paleobotany #palaeobotany

Michael Laaß, Ludwig Luthardt, Steffen Trümper, Angelika Leipner, Norbert Hauschke & Ronny Rößler

Another stem-mammal trackway from the Hopeman sandstones. Numbering, lower left, means this block will soon be off to Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, warmer than Moray! #ichnology #permian

Croquis d'un crâne de dimetrodon Grandis

Crâne de dimetrodon Grandis

J'étais à l'exposition paléontologique d'Aix-en-Provence.

Partagez et donnez pour Heba et sa famille de Gaza : chuffed.org/project/1641...

#sciart #paleoart #paleontology #dimetrodon #sketch #fossilfriday #permian #paleozoic #croquis

#Synapsids didn’t just appear out of nowhere in the #Permian, I am disappointed with the lack of information about their origins during the #Carboniferous period.

#PBS #NOVA

Painterly illustration of a large L. maccaigi at an evaporating stream looking at a smaller L. curvatus peeking out of its burrow in a desolate canyon bathed in orange sunset light.

Permian illustration for James Stryker's paleoart project featuring two species of Lystrosaurus.

#Permian #Illustration #Paleoart #Paleoillustration #Lystrosaurus #Lystrosaurusmaccaigi #Lystrosauruscurvatus

Test paint on my Arctops sculpt! It’s probly getting a little more work on it but one session in and the vibes are there :) #paleoart #gorgonopsid #permian

Fig. 3. Coprolites morphotypes (A–D) and their proportion (E). (A) Heteropolar (UFRGS-PV-0535-P). (B) Amphipolar (UFRGS-PV-0374-P). (C) Indeterminate spiral (UFRGS-PV-0750a-P). (D) Non-spiral (UFRGS-PV-0741c-P). (E) Graphic showing the proportion of morphotypes found in the studied sites (N = 97). Scale bars = 5 mm (A–C), 1 mm (D).

Comparison of the size of non-alimentary inclusions found in the coprolites.

Paleoecological insights from #coprolites and their inclusions from the #Permian Rio do Rasto Formation, #Brazil: doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

97 samples with fish, plant, insect, bone inclusions and microorganisms and parasites

Download it here for limited time: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mYVo,gYwh...

Submitted for the ilustra.see competition last year. This was an experiment on depicting Paleontology with Wayang kulit, a traditional shadow puppet art form from my country. Here a scene reminiscent of my City, Surabaya's founding myth is depicted, but instead of a shark fighting a crocodile, it is a Permian Spiny shark fighting an early armored sea reptile. Surrounding them are brachiopods, tabulate corals, and horn corals found throughout Permian strata in Java and Timor, while the Gunungans in the back have a simple wavy pattern to indicate the scene is taking place underwater. The wayang cutouts are drawn in Photoshop, imported as transparent PNG objects in Blender and rendered in Cycles to achieve the shadow puppet look

Wayang purbakala
The iconic myth from my hometown (a shark fighting a crocodile) depicted as Javanese wayang shadow puppets of Permian animals.
#wayang #wayangkulit #3D #blender3d #Surabaya #Indonesia #Permian #paleoart #SciArt

Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture on Instagram: "Dinosaurs are cool, but they’re a teeny tiny fraction of ancient life. Let’s talk about our fossil lab manager’s favorite extinct underdog. ... 81 likes, 6 comments - burkemuseum on January 29, 2026: "Dinosaurs are cool, but they’re a teeny tiny fraction of ancient life. Let’s talk about our fossil lab manager’s favorite extinct underdog. Ke...

www.instagram.com/p/DUGre75DxfL/ @pinuppaleontology.bsky.social tells it how it is, featuring some art by yours truly :) #paleoart #gorgonopsid #permian #gorgonopsian @burkemuseum.bsky.social

This german arachnid is one of the few trigonotarbids known during the Permian. Compared to other Aphantomartus species, this one is poorly known with only one specimen. Size : a bit more than 4/5cm of main body length Time period : Early Permian Paleoart speculativometer : Mostly based on another taxon The animal drawn look like heavy spider-like animal, with segmented abdomen and numerous tuberculation on its skin

What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime!
We travel back in time to the Permian period to meet Aphantomartus ilfeldicus, a poorly known trigonotarbid!

All the basic infos are here but if you want to learn more there’s more below!⬇️

#Chelicerate #Arachnid #Permian #sciart #bugsky #invert

1/3

#Dicynodonts were notably able to survive the worst mass #extinction event in history: the End-Permian event (~252 Ma). Despite this evolutionary bottleneck, they were able to diversify & regenerate a comparable level of diversity in the Triassic to their pre-extinction levels in the #Permian.

5/

#Dicynodonts were an ancient & successful group of #synapsids that lived from the middle of the #Permian to the end of the #Triassic. They were among the largest terrestrial animals of their time, only really surpassed when large dinosaurs began to evolve in the Late Triassic.

3/

Li et al in press | Frond reconstruction of Polymorphopteris mei sp. nov. from the early #Permian Wuda Tuff Flora with insights into its taphonomy | Historical Biology: doi.org/10.1080/0891...
#palaeobotany

"Maybe, if every child got to cuddle their own #Pangaean #Permian era #Gorgonopsian plushie, the world might be a better place today….."
Image taken from ExtinctZoo’s “All 5 Types of #Sabertooths Explained” video.

Paleo #pixelart of the new gorgonopsid Njalila!

🇧🇷 Paleo Pixel arte do novo gorgonopsideo Njalila!

#permian #sciart #paleontology #paleoart

Black-and-white pencil sketches of four prehistoric synapsids: three different gorgonopsians in a column on the far left side of the page, and then a scene of two Hippidion taking up the rest of the space. The top gorgonopsian is Dinogorgon, rolling around on the ground happily. The middle gorgonopsian is the small Viatkogorgon, swimming above the viewer with a temnospondyl in its mouth. The bottom gorgonopsian is a bust of the newly named Njalila, just yawning. The two Hippidion that take up most of the paper are a pair of stallions fighting in the open habitats of the high Andes. One of them is in the process of kicking the other’s snout, likely breaking the long nasal bone characteristic of this genus. In the distance, a Spectacled Bear stands up to get a better view of the battle.

Tonight’s flocking-together #Paleostream was nothing but synapsids, three gorgonopsians in a row (Dinogorgon, Viatkogorgon, and Njalila) and then the Pleistocene South American horse Hippidion. #paleoart #sciart #permian #pleistocene

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV6H...
Paleo-enthusiasts, this is for you!

A French documentary with CGI about therapsids from South Africa, before the reign of dinosaurs, coming January 15th.

Featuring paleontologist and YouTuber Julien Benoit
#triassic #permian #therapsid