This gallery mainly deals with documentary images and more exact reconstructions, effecting styles and compositions. Most of this has been produced explicitly for publications. This is why shark egg capsules are concentrated here. Preliminary drawings my give a look behind the scenes.
scientific style
Ianthodon, grand-grand...father - digital art
Ianthodon, grand-grand...father
colored version of my figure from this basal synapsid's redescription
©
2014
Frederik Spindler.
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Ianthodon maquette - stearin wax
Ianthodon maquette
skull maquette used as master for the above drawing
© 2014 Frederik Spindler.
basal Sphenacodontia - ink
basal Sphenacodontia
© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.
basal Sphenacodontia - pencil, digitally hued
basal Sphenacodontia
poster illustrations
Spindler, F., Brink, K. & Piñeiro, G. (2013): An upgraded perspective on basal Sphenacodontia, the stem group of mammal-like amniotes. – 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), 157f. [Poster]
© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.
Triassic freshwater sharks - digital art and ink
Triassic freshwater sharks
line drawings for a terminology table, with different egg capsules, tooth, and epidermal scale
Fischer, J., Voigt, S., Schneider, J.W., Buchwitz, M. & Voigt, S. (2011): A selachian freshwater fauna from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and its implications for mesozoic shark nurseries. - J. Vert. Pal. 31 (5): 937-953.
featured article, for cover illustration see here
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Triassic freshwater sharks - ink
Triassic freshwater sharks
Palaeoxyris egg capsule fossils from Madygen
Fischer, J., Voigt, S., Schneider, J.W., Buchwitz, M. & Voigt, S. (2011): A selachian freshwater fauna from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and its implications for mesozoic shark nurseries. - J. Vert. Pal. 31 (5): 937-953.
featured article, for cover illustration see here
© 2010 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.
Triassic freshwater sharks - ink and digital art
Triassic freshwater sharks
Palaeoxyris egg capsules, anatomical positioning
Fischer, J., Voigt, S., Schneider, J.W., Buchwitz, M. & Voigt, S. (2011): A selachian freshwater fauna from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and its implications for mesozoic shark nurseries. - J. Vert. Pal. 31 (5): 937-953.
featured article, for cover illustration see here
© 2010 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.
Triassic freshwater sharks - ink
Triassic freshwater sharks
Fayolia egg capsule fossils from Madygen
Fischer, J., Voigt, S., Schneider, J.W., Buchwitz, M. & Voigt, S. (2011): A selachian freshwater fauna from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and its implications for mesozoic shark nurseries. - J. Vert. Pal. 31 (5): 937-953.
featured article, for cover illustration see here
© 2010 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.
Triassic freshwater sharks - ink (digital composition)
Triassic freshwater sharks
life reconstructions of Palaeoxyris and Fayolia before compaction
Fischer, J., Voigt, S., Schneider, J.W., Buchwitz, M. & Voigt, S. (2011): A selachian freshwater fauna from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and its implications for mesozoic shark nurseries. - J. Vert. Pal. 31 (5): 937-953.
featured article, for cover illustration see here
© 2010 Frederik Spindler (Jan Fischer). All rights reserved.
model of speciation
model of speciation
A model for biological speciation, with (geological) time along the vertical axis, horizontal levels are taxonomical units (e.g. species) with their feature pool at a distinct time
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Frederik Spindler.
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Saurichthys - Tusche
Saurichthys
der Raubfisch Saurichthys orientalis (Trias, Kirgisien), Fossildokumentation und rekonstruiertes Exoskelett (grau unterlegt die unbekannten Partien); Änderungen, Graubereich und Querschnitt digital durch I. Kogan und J. Fischer
kolorierte Version für das Poster
Kogan, I., Schönberger, K., Fischer, J. & Voigt, S. (2009): A nearly complete skeleton of Saurichthys orientalis (Pisces, Actinopterygii) from the Madygen Formation (Middle to Late Triassic, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia) – preliminary results. Freiberger Forschungshefte, C 532: 139-152 (p.144).
© 2009 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.
Diadectes & Orobates - Tusche
Diadectes & Orobates
diadectide Skelettdarstellungen der zuordenbaren Erzeuger von Fährten-Spezies: links Orobates pabsti mit Ichniotherium sphaerodactylum, rechts Diadectes absitus mit I. cottae
farbige Umsetzung
Voigt, S., Berman, D.S. & Henrici, A.C. (2007): First well-established track-trackmaker association of paleozoic tetrapods based on Ichniotherium trackways and diadectid skeletons from the Lower Permian of Germany. J. Vert. Pal. 27 (3): 553-570 (p.564).
© Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.
Singvogel - Tusche
Singvogel
Komposition und Komplettierung eines Skelettes des ältesten Singvogels (Oligozän von Deutschland) nach Fossilfragmenten bei Mayr
© Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.
Spindler, F., Scott, D. & Reisz, R.R. (2015): New information in the cranial and postcranial anatomy of the early synapsid Ianthodon schultzei (Sphenacomorpha: Sphenacodontia), and its evolutionary significance. – Fossil Record 18, 17-30. Published online 2014, doi:10.5194/fr-18-17-2015
www.foss-rec.net/18/17/2015/fr-18-17-2015.html