Some chinese placodonts and stem turtles
March 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Some chinese placodonts and stem turtles
Placodontiformes – Placodonts
December 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Placodontiformes – Placodonts
some Triassic Sauropterygians #sauropterygia #marinereptiles #nothosaurus #paleoart #triassic #placodonts
April 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
some Triassic Sauropterygians #sauropterygia #marinereptiles #nothosaurus #paleoart #triassic #placodonts
Part of the tetrapod fauna of the Xiaowa Formation. Late Triassic, Asia
This is a plate of my book on Tetrapods of the Triassic. As you know I have been working on this book for many years and I am still working on it
#paleoart #sciart #ichthyosaurs #placodonts
This is a plate of my book on Tetrapods of the Triassic. As you know I have been working on this book for many years and I am still working on it
#paleoart #sciart #ichthyosaurs #placodonts
March 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Part of the tetrapod fauna of the Xiaowa Formation. Late Triassic, Asia
This is a plate of my book on Tetrapods of the Triassic. As you know I have been working on this book for many years and I am still working on it
#paleoart #sciart #ichthyosaurs #placodonts
This is a plate of my book on Tetrapods of the Triassic. As you know I have been working on this book for many years and I am still working on it
#paleoart #sciart #ichthyosaurs #placodonts
Your periodic reminder that these are NOT turtles but Placodonts, a group of amazing extinct marine reptiles that lived during the Triassic!
🐡 🎨 🧪 🐍 #paleontology
🐡 🎨 🧪 🐍 #paleontology
November 16, 2023 at 3:03 PM
Your periodic reminder that these are NOT turtles but Placodonts, a group of amazing extinct marine reptiles that lived during the Triassic!
🐡 🎨 🧪 🐍 #paleontology
🐡 🎨 🧪 🐍 #paleontology
Have you drawn any placodonts?
August 2, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Have you drawn any placodonts?
Placodonts are amazing! Exhibit A: Cyamodus orientalis. And no, this is NOT a turtle.
This is an illustration for my book (in preparation) You can see this one and another Placodont I reconstructed for my book in a new post exclusive for my patrons
Patreon.com/serpenillus
🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology 🐍
This is an illustration for my book (in preparation) You can see this one and another Placodont I reconstructed for my book in a new post exclusive for my patrons
Patreon.com/serpenillus
🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology 🐍
August 14, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Placodonts are amazing! Exhibit A: Cyamodus orientalis. And no, this is NOT a turtle.
This is an illustration for my book (in preparation) You can see this one and another Placodont I reconstructed for my book in a new post exclusive for my patrons
Patreon.com/serpenillus
🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology 🐍
This is an illustration for my book (in preparation) You can see this one and another Placodont I reconstructed for my book in a new post exclusive for my patrons
Patreon.com/serpenillus
🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology 🐍
happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is psephoderma, a placodont from late triassic europe. placodonts were sauropterygians – meaning that they were related to pliosaurs and plesiosaurs – with distinctive teeth well-suited to crushing the shells of molluscs
(art by ntvtiko)
(art by ntvtiko)
March 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is psephoderma, a placodont from late triassic europe. placodonts were sauropterygians – meaning that they were related to pliosaurs and plesiosaurs – with distinctive teeth well-suited to crushing the shells of molluscs
(art by ntvtiko)
(art by ntvtiko)
Placodonts are awesome dinos, placodonts are awesome dinos, placodonts a e awesomecdinos
Your periodic reminder that these are NOT turtles but Placodonts, a group of amazing extinct marine reptiles that lived during the Triassic!
🐡 🎨 🧪 🐍 #paleontology
🐡 🎨 🧪 🐍 #paleontology
November 16, 2023 at 9:39 PM
Placodonts are awesome dinos, placodonts are awesome dinos, placodonts a e awesomecdinos
Things slowly coming together for the Tetrapod Zoology 19th birthday article... (Jan 21st is the day). 2024 was a full-on year alright.
January 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Things slowly coming together for the Tetrapod Zoology 19th birthday article... (Jan 21st is the day). 2024 was a full-on year alright.
Sneak peek of pages 162-163 of my book “Journey to The Mesozoic: Tetrapods of the Triassic”
The text is not proofread yet … I keep editing and changing so there are plenty of typos that I still need to fix
🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology
The text is not proofread yet … I keep editing and changing so there are plenty of typos that I still need to fix
🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology
March 14, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Sneak peek of pages 162-163 of my book “Journey to The Mesozoic: Tetrapods of the Triassic”
The text is not proofread yet … I keep editing and changing so there are plenty of typos that I still need to fix
🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology
The text is not proofread yet … I keep editing and changing so there are plenty of typos that I still need to fix
🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology
I propose that we start calling Henodus, and by extension other cyamodontoids (i.e. shelled placodonts), Mock Turtles
April 27, 2026 at 6:26 AM
I propose that we start calling Henodus, and by extension other cyamodontoids (i.e. shelled placodonts), Mock Turtles
Not just them. I’m including nothosaurs, pistosaurs, placodonts, pachypleurosaurs, saurosphargids, etc.
May 23, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Not just them. I’m including nothosaurs, pistosaurs, placodonts, pachypleurosaurs, saurosphargids, etc.
Placodonts are weird, ya'll; only two of these guys are turtles!
Lets go triassic turtles and not turtles #sciart
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Placodonts are weird, ya'll; only two of these guys are turtles!
Have you done any non-plesiosaurian sauropterygians? Saurosphargids, pistosaurs, nothosaurs, placodonts, etc.
August 2, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Have you done any non-plesiosaurian sauropterygians? Saurosphargids, pistosaurs, nothosaurs, placodonts, etc.
Lapras is likely inspired by Plesiosaurs, placodonts, specifically from the Cyamodontoidea superfamily, which have shells not unlike Lapras's, the Loch ness monster, and possibly endangered turtles, whales, and other arctic marine animals. Design from 2024-25.
July 5, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Lapras is likely inspired by Plesiosaurs, placodonts, specifically from the Cyamodontoidea superfamily, which have shells not unlike Lapras's, the Loch ness monster, and possibly endangered turtles, whales, and other arctic marine animals. Design from 2024-25.
placodonts look like turtles which look like turtles that look like placodonts
March 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
placodonts look like turtles which look like turtles that look like placodonts
Have you done placodonts yet?
August 2, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Have you done placodonts yet?
Placodonts are super weird and I love them. Probably need to do microwear on their teeth if it hasn't been done yet.
March 13, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Placodonts are super weird and I love them. Probably need to do microwear on their teeth if it hasn't been done yet.
Any creature design that includes placodonts is excellent in my view. I love them to a fault. And I love httyd. This is amazing 🤩
October 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Any creature design that includes placodonts is excellent in my view. I love them to a fault. And I love httyd. This is amazing 🤩
Tritorian Elasmosaurus is a mysterious oddity to witness within the coasts and river ways of Tritora, switching between such variants of water depending on prey availability - it is a specialist in placodonts and turtle species.
January 20, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Tritorian Elasmosaurus is a mysterious oddity to witness within the coasts and river ways of Tritora, switching between such variants of water depending on prey availability - it is a specialist in placodonts and turtle species.
Singular profiles of the cranial anatomy of some long gone and still surviving tetrapods in the world of Permotriad, my alt-seed earthlike setting!
![(†𝑫𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒙 𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒚𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒔)
[“DRAGONEATER”]
“A quick radiation of crested neotheropods (“dilophosaurs”) has created one of the most enigmatic theropods of Permotriad’s natural history shortly after the Harvest Age. Being considered the planet’s very first documented ‘megatheropods’, D. pantodynamopes was unlike anything seen on Earth, living in a world where their once pseudosuchian & therapsid overlords haven’t lost their full dominion. Early theropods like these showcased how quickly dinosaurs were ready to take on more important & powerful roles in their rapidly changing ecosystems.”
(Credit: iamthekaijuking)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:56ia7aqvdf6qb66ssg3jt4nm/bafkreibidkhekyvikkoidfh37rwc6t55qvkeadtv7s46vkwvjo766jfdu4)
![(†𝑵𝒆𝒅𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒈𝒐𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒔)
[“TRIACERATOPS”]
“Oringially was classed is a “Triassic ceratopsian” despite many disputed comments from xenopaleontologists. N. mologgoensis is an undisputed member of the rhynchosaur lineage, a group of Triassic archosauromorphs that filled the niches of small burrowers and small-mid sized herbivores. Nearly 70 million years after their latest confirmed harvests of the clade, some began to tap into large herbivorous niches due to the localized absence of competing lystrosaurs & procolophonians. Larger rostrums, expansion of jaw muscles, enlarged skulls, & even protrusion of the frontal & posterior end of the cranium almost like a “frill” alike in early marginocephalians of Earth. Despite their seemingly successful longevity, they soon lost their grip as the actual ornithischians became more diverse and expanded into new frontiers, pushing these novel rhynchosaurs towards extinction…”
(Credit: iamthekaijuking)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:56ia7aqvdf6qb66ssg3jt4nm/bafkreihwoexxvkesmq4sbspdtyntnvl7yythsree3xttqgf4utvnd6x3gu)
![(𝑼𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒐𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒚𝒔 𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒙)
[“URCHINSHELL/URCHINTAIL”]
“One of the largest most powerful shelled vertebrates on Permotriad, the Urchinshell is one of the greatest examples of a “specialized generalist”. Having one of the most strongest powerful bites in the animal kingdom, it is able to pulverize and disintegrate everything from shells to bone to live coral rock to even some amount of pure limestone! Once evolving from toothless beaked marine placodonts, they now hold a major assemblage of modern durophages within shallow reefs and open benthic zones. Urchinshells showcase a high degree muscle attachments behind the skull and simplified cranium complexity, going for a strong, durable, and immensely destructive beak that may put T. rex & Deinosuchus to shame…“
(Credit: iamthekaijuking)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:56ia7aqvdf6qb66ssg3jt4nm/bafkreiegmqn3osv5raweygf2oydbf7sv2vnlls2j3i5oam6b3ffecgzbdy)
![(𝑴𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒓)
[“OUTCOMPETER”]
“One of the most iconic yet brutal herbivores of modern Permotriad, this as-of-yet unnamed megafauna is a surprisingly hardy relic of the past. While most large dicyndonts have been exclusively dominated by the Triassic Kannemeyeriiforms, many Permian dicynodont lineages have & still obtain large body sizes throughout time after the Harvest Age. This taxon however, is one no one would’ve thought was possible; a giant late surviving far descendant of the Pylaecephalids, showcasing a vast ghost lineage nearly 100 million years & many planned revisions of previous dicynodont fossils waiting to be correctly analyzed. These raging megaherbivores have shown little resilience to expanding their natural ranges over the last 34 million years, showing a well sampled anagenesis directly competing many other dicynodonts, archosaurs & co. with little resistance. They are the true outcompeters…
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April 9, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Singular profiles of the cranial anatomy of some long gone and still surviving tetrapods in the world of Permotriad, my alt-seed earthlike setting!
Wow, those placodonts ARE cute!
July 7, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Wow, those placodonts ARE cute!