A double-page spread from my new book (När dinosaurierna tog över) depicting a scene from South Africa during the Early Jurassic. #sciart #paleoart #dinosaurs #books #scicomm

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Ledumahadi mafube

From Early Jurassic Elliot Formation, South Africa, "giant dawn thunderclap" was a 12 ton basal sauropod that hadn't yet evolved columnar limbs. Part of the lessemsaurid family, it was one of the first true giant dinosaurs

Art by Viktor Radermacher

ledumahadi is a lessemsaurid, a clade of sauropodiforms notable for attaining large body sizes despite lacking the columnar limbs characteristic of later sauropods. taxa like ingentia were some of the largest animals of the triassic period
(art by gabriel ugueto)

Sarita's Archovember 2024
Day 23 - Ledumahadi mafube

#ledumahadi #ledumahadimafube #sauropodomorpha #sauropodomorph #lessemsaurid #lizard #reptile #dinosaur #Archovember #Archovember2024 #dinovember #dinovember2024 #paleoart

as evidenced by the trailer, this show intends to cover the capitanian extinction event, the permian-triassic mass extinction, and the carnian pluvial episode, as we glimpse small furry cynodonts alongside lessemsaurid sauropodomorphs towards the end of the footage