any reconstruction - Dr. Frederik Spindler

'Sméagol and the Kong' - oil paint sketch

'Sméagol and the Kong'

Giganthopithecus blacki and Homo erectus, in a meaningful encounter

see the sketching phase

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Carboniferous flood plane - oil

Carboniferous flood plane

The Late Carboniferous profiles from the Atlas mountais yielded sphenacodont and diadectomorph footprints, as well as thunderstorm layers of gymnosperm branches washed to a shallow pond

Schneider, J.W., Saber, H., Belahmira, A., Scholze, F., Spindler, F. & Lagnaoui, A. (2013): Thunderstorm and catastrophical flood in Morocco - 305 Ma ago. – In: Reitner, J., Qun, Y., Yongdong, W. & Reich, M.: Palaeobiology and Geobiology of Fossil Lagerstätten through Earth History (Joint Conference of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft and the Palaeontological Society of China, Göttingen, abstract volume), 146f. [Poster]

Uintatherium - oil

Uintatherium

Uintatherium portrait, sketch

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Postosuchus feasting on Placerias - oil painting

Postosuchus feasting on Placerias

a larger Postosuchus at the fresh carcass that it might not have killed on ist own

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wolves - gouache

wolves

Dire wolf (Canis dirus) and European gray wolf (C. lupus)

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Georgiacetus - oil

Georgiacetus

ancient cetacean ("Archaeoceti"), mediating between more primitive, amphibious protocetids and pelagicetes like dorudontids

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Llanocetus - oil

Llanocetus

ancient baleen whale (Mysticeti), maybe without certain baleens, but with typical proportions

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Squalodelphis - oil

Squalodelphis

long-snouted toothed cetacean (Odontoceti) of an extinct family

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Repenomamus - oil

Repenomamus

This triconodont mammal is more primitive than any extant species. He experimental reconstruction with a pouch (marsupium) is possible, as both maruspials (most likely the sister group of Placentalia) and monotremes have it. But it's not well built and even not permanent in every recent species, so that a real pouch in more primitive fossil mammals is a case of what I call "plausible fiction", but not really convincing at all. - Anyway, my major intension was not to show it with a baby Psittacosaurus prey once more...

made with a maquette

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Plesiochelys - oil

Plesiochelys

a common large-sized aquatic turtle of the Early Cretaceous

Istiodactylus - oil

Istiodactylus

the spoonbill pterosaur from the Wealden group

Caulkicephalus - oil

Caulkicephalus

another ornithocheirid pterosaur

The patagium might also include the ankle region, as argued by Darren Naish. Well, a perfect fossil evidence is still unknown so far.

Goniopholis - oil

Goniopholis

a common mesosuchian crocodile during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous

hyeans - gouache

hyeans

larger ice age cave hyena and holocene form

NaTourWissen

lions - gouache

lions

larger ice age cave lion and modern lions (both males)

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bears - gouache

bears

larger ice age cave bear and extant brown bear

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mammoth - gouache

mammoth

wooly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius

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fossil sharks - oil

fossil sharks

Hybodus, Sphenacanthus

Oreodonts I - Oil

Oreodonts I

Merycoidodontidae, relatives of camels within the Tylopoda, with Merycoidodon and the arboreal Agriochoerus

klick here for sketches

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Oreodonts II - oil

Oreodonts II

Brachycrus

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Oreodonts III - oil

Oreodonts III

Promerycochoerus

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Arsinoitherium - oil

Arsinoitherium

a large rhino-like afrother (close to elephant stemgroup)

Seymouria & Dimetrodon - gouache

Seymouria & Dimetrodon

the Early Permian Tambach Formation (Bromacker site in Thuringia, Germany) beared the fossils of Seymouria sanjuanensis and the dwarf sphenacodont Dimetrodon teutonis, a plausible hunter of Seymouria

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Permian pond environment - oil painting

Permian pond environment

reconstruction of an Early Permian lakustrine tetrapod assemblage, based on the Niederhäslich Fm. (Saxony, Germany), with Eyropids (Onchiodon labyrinthicus) of different individual age

brontother series - gouache

brontother series

Brontotheriids from the Paleogene, with the largest species up to 2.5 m withers height

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further published artwork

brontother series I - gouache

brontother series I

Palaeosyops leidyi (formerly Eotitanops borealis)

brontother series II - gouache

brontother series II

Sthenodectes incisivum

brontother series III - gouache

brontother series III

Protitan grangeri

brontother series IV - gouache

brontother series IV

Rhinotitan mongoliensis

brontother series V - gouache

brontother series V

Megacerops (formerly Brontotherium) gigas

brontother series VI - gouache

brontother series VI

Embolotherium andrewsi

Champsosaurus sp. - pencil

Champsosaurus sp.

... the platypus lizard: an aquatic reptile surviving the C-T-boundary

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Lissodus - gouache

Lissodus

life reconstruction of the small freshwater shark Lissodus (Hybodontian), maybe a lake bed near swimming, durophageous hunter

more of fossil sharks among science and published stuff

Eryops - Bleistift

Eryops

großer Lurch mit krokodilartiger Lebensweise

Sivatherium maurusium - Gouache

Sivatherium maurusium

große, ausgestorbene Giraffe aus Afrika

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Shansitherium fuguensis - Gouache

Shansitherium fuguensis

ausgestorbene Giraffe aus Asien

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Giraffoidea

die Giraffenartigen als Zyklus von Kopfstudien (einzeln siehe unten), Hand als gemeinsamer Maßstab; zwei Vertreter könnten größere Gehörne besessen haben

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für Vollrekonstruktionen siehe die vorangehenden Bilder

mehrere Skizzen zu Giraffen

Kopfmodell zu Sivatherium

Prolibytherium magnieri - Gouache

Prolibytherium magnieri

Dieses kaum mittelgroße Huftier aus dem frühen Miozän Nordafrikas gehört nicht zu den Giraffen, aber zu den Climacoceratiden, die mit Giraffen unter die Giraffoidea zusammengefasst werden. Das Gehörn, das nicht abgeworfen wurde, misst in der Breite etwa 35 cm. Weibchen haben schmale Hörner mit Spitzen nach vorn und hinten.