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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
...Didymoceras, Platyhystrix, Mamenchisaurus, Sivatherium...
February 4, 2025 at 6:05 AM
joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
Platyhystrix, dancind and luring in a female with freshly laid spermatophores.

#paleoart #sciart #paleostream
January 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
paleorex.bsky.social
Platyhystrix? I hardly know her!
A platyhystrix hittin that smug smolder
April 10, 2026 at 4:37 PM
sophiesaurus98.bsky.social
Robert Bakker's Platyhystrix and captorhinids!
A sail-backed Platyhystrix strides over a sand dune, carrying a lizard-like captorhinid in its mouth. Two other captorhinids peer from their burrows, surveying the carnage.
December 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
dreambob.bsky.social
20/08/2025
Platyhystrix

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20/08/2025 Platyhystrix nom nom yummy baby
August 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
chrisdipiazza.bsky.social
Latest #watercolor is the weird (saying a lot by amphibian standards) temnospondyl, #Platyhystrix. The crest on the back is made of elongated armor plates, not extended vertebra like most other sailbacked animals. #paleoart
April 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
yee-qi.bsky.social
Dimetrodon attacks a congregation of breeding Platyhystrix. Edaphosaurs watch. It's really intriguing to me how all of these Permian Southwestern animals convergently evolved sailbacks.

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Dimetrodon, a grand sailbacked synapsid, crashes the party of some unfortunate Platyhystrix that swim away frantically. In the back, several Edaphosaurus watch.
March 28, 2026 at 12:13 AM
impulseimpact.bsky.social
july 5 #paleostream flocking
pelagornis astrodon
platyhystrix gaiasia
October 24, 2024 at 8:14 PM
maijakarala.bsky.social
Platyhystrix was one of the many - curiously, unrelated - animals with a sail from around this time. Was it a thermoregulation device? An ornamental feature to impress mates? Maybe both? Regardless, it probably didn't make hiding from predators any easier.
Side view illustration of Platyhystrix (name meaning "flat porcupine": a clumsy-looking vaguely amphibian animal with splayed limbs and a tall sail-like structure on its' back.
July 19, 2025 at 8:14 AM
koskinonodon.bsky.social
Looks like it's that time of the year to pull this out again (with updated speen art)

#FossilFriday #TemnospondylsDidItBetter
"Show me the best"/"Perfection" meme with Michael Fassbender showing three sail-backed tetrapods, the new Spinosaurus mirabilis (art by Dani Navarro), Dimetrodon (art by Danielle Dufault), and Platyhystrix (art by u/SaurArch on Pinterest), from top to bottom. Corresponding text is "show me the best sail-backed tetrapod" (Spinosaurus), "I said the best sail-backed tetrapod" (Dimetrodon), and "perfection" (Platyhystrix)
February 20, 2026 at 2:50 PM
maijakarala.bsky.social
In the early Permian, a little less than 300 million years ago, life on land was rich and diverse, but most of the animals were still a bit... goofy.

A scene from Texas Red Beds, with Eryops chasing after a Platyhystrix, with various flora and invertebates from the formation.
An illustration of a large, salamander-like Eryops comically running after a sail-backed amphibian Platyhystrix in a forest landscape with ferns, mosses and fungi. There are large flying insects in the air and cockroaches and millipedes in the foreground.
December 27, 2024 at 4:22 PM
sophiesaurus98.bsky.social
Today’s four random pieces of palaeoart:

@maijakarala.bsky.social’s Platyhystrix, @chrisdipiazza.bsky.social’s Cryolophosaurus, Arthur Hayward’s Styracosaurus, and Ely Kish’s Triceratops!
A deep grey and white countershaded Platyhystrix standing in a wide stanced posture. Its sail has a messy streak of red at its middle point. A slender, purplish Cryolophosaurus with a yellow underside and white-banded tail feeds on a small, blue-grey sauropodomorph. A squat, turtle-beaked Styracosaurus with wrinkled, toad-like skin stands before a meadow of red wildflowers. A herd of wide-stanced Triceratops with short horns and slick blue skin trundle across a sandy beach. In the distance, huge bird-like pterosaurs soar over the sea.
August 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
tyasmoerti93.bsky.social
Took me days to do this piece. Finally getting my hands on the weird dissorophoid Platyhystrix rugosus. First time trying to create a scene, pls do leave appreciative comment if you can...

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Platyhystrix rugosus, a dissorophoid temnospondyl from late Carboniferous-early Permian North America. Platyhystrix is unique for having a sail on its back, giving it a mini-Dimetrodon/Spinosaurus-esque look to it. In this rough art a male Platyhystrix tries to woo a female from his rock throne. Sexual dimorphism here is pretty speculative but based on the behaviour of modern-day amphibia.
November 20, 2024 at 5:05 AM
ppaleoartist.bsky.social
here's today's #Paleostream sketches!!!

today we drew Gaiasia, Pelagornis, Platyhystrix, and Astrodon
a Gaiasia swims up close to a submerged camera during summer, the artificial light of the camera illuminates the animal a Pelagornis is seen from below, the picture appears to be taken by a phone camera of some sort a Platyhystrix is seen laying her eggs in some shallow water an Astrodon uses its prehensile tongue to grab some conifer leaves
July 6, 2024 at 1:39 AM
maijakarala.bsky.social
Clumsy Hunter

In the early Permian, a little less than 300 million years ago, life on land had long been rich and diverse, but most of the animals were still a bit... goofy.

Here's Eryops chasing down a Platyhystrix in a lush riverside forest in what is now Texas, some 290 million years ago.
Colourful illustration of a forest scene in which a large, blue-grey vaguely salamander-like animal is running somewhat comically, it's maw open to grab a smaller, sail-backed animal that is escaping up a fallen tree trunk. The ground is covered by mosses, dead leaves and ferns, with several insects and millpedes around.
July 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
palaeojules.bsky.social
Tonight haul from #Paleostream:
Missed the first drawing, but managed to do a tube-nosed Pelagornis, a sleepy Platyhystrix, and an Astrodon tooth caught on a Drewria seedling. #paleoart #paleontology #FossilFriday
July 6, 2024 at 1:16 AM
yee-qi.bsky.social
Dimetrodon ambushes a grouping of Platyhystrix.
#sciart #paleoart #paleontology #dimetrodon #permian #paleozoic #originalart #art
A variety of Platyhystrix, sail-backed salamander-like creatures, panickedly swim away from a marauding Dimetrodon, a large, gray animal with a reddish fin on its back and sharp teeth. Edaphosaurus, bluish sail-backed animals, gawk in the background. It is dawn.
May 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
dynamoterror.bsky.social
Tonight’s flocking #paleostream sketches: a pair of male Gaiasia, a Pelagornis flying through the waves, a derpy Platyhystrix, and an Astrodon.
July 6, 2024 at 2:07 AM
mrspringjunkie.bsky.social
Platyhystrix Rugosus
February 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
titanichamster.bsky.social
Hi I’m Archie, and here’s a sample of my paleoart so you can see what I’ll be posting in future
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Stegoceras Rhinodicynodon Fasolasuchus Platyhystrix
September 24, 2023 at 12:43 AM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
to celebrate #froggyfriday, meet platyhystrix, a temnospondyl from the late carboniferous and early permian, known for its distinctive sail-backed appearance that echoes basal synapsids like dimetrodon and edaphosaurus
(art by @serpenillus.bsky.social)
art of platyhystrix, a sail-backed temnospondyl
November 1, 2024 at 7:06 PM
markwitton.bsky.social
From 2017: Platyhystrix wanders out of a Permian swamp next to the roots of a fallen tree. This ancient dissorophid #amphibian is only known from its sail, so the closely related genus Cacops provides the rest of the body. #paleoart #fossil #paleontology #sciart
A sail-backed amphibian with a frog-like face and compact body emerges from a swamp alongside the root network of a fallen tree. The animal's sail has radiating ridges with red areas near the edge, and the body is mottled with white stripes along the belly and tail. An orange band extends from the head along the entire body. Trees and thick vegetation clutter around the water margin, with more trees and low hills visible in the distance.
March 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
metanagon.bsky.social
Jour 10 du #paleoctober2025

🐊 Mourasuchus (~6 Ma)
Un crocodile d’Amérique, au crâne long et plat ! Il filtrait des poissons et crustacés dans l’eau.

🦎 Platyhystrix (~300 Ma)
Un amphibien reconnaissable à sa voile dorsale, semblable à celle des dimétrodons.

#paleoart #artist #reptile #nature
October 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
weaniebean.bsky.social
Have some art from earlier this year! Me and one of my best friends love playing rexes in PoT!! Eeee
#dino #dinosaur #pathoftitans #art
Two T. Rexes looking to the left, one has a dead platyhystrix in its mouth. That one is purple and yellow with dark black stripes. The other is spotted with white, grey, and yellow spots.
November 18, 2024 at 5:38 PM
thenewartistgr.bsky.social
Hello BlueSky, my name is Carlos, I'm a PaleoArtist and ConceptArtist.
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Art of Domeykodactylus Art of Platyhystrix Me and my Girlfriend FanArt of Avatar: The Way of Water
July 31, 2023 at 8:41 PM