Here the result of the St. Bathans fauna stream! This one took us into the early Miocene of New Zealand, the Moa's ark, as some call it. After many formation streams with very few birds this one has probably way too many! #paleostream #paleoart #sciart - ThreadSky

joschuaknuppe.bsky.social • 7 days ago

Here the result of the St. Bathans fauna stream! This one took us into the early Miocene of New Zealand, the Moa's ark, as some call it. After many formation streams with very few birds this one has probably way too many!
#paleostream #paleoart #sciart

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vincent-notitalian.bsky.social•7 days ago

Looks incredibale

joschuaknuppe.bsky.social•7 days ago

The St. Bathans fauna formed shortly after NZ reemerged after being nearly gone during the Oligocene. It preserves a rich, subtropical wetland community dominated by anseriformes. Boy do we have many ducks here!

joschuaknuppe.bsky.social•7 days ago

Besides that the largest known parrots, flying kiwis, basal moas and surprising elements like crocodiles and turtles roamed here. Not to mention the weird St. Bathans mammal!
As you can see in these size charts by @dynamoterror.bsky.social and @arminreindl.bsky.social
there is still much to draw!

dynamoterror.bsky.social•7 days ago

Very important to note, basically all the species on the chart are known from fragments, scraps, and dreams. Armin scaled nearly all based on likely-similar extant species’ skeletons and my drawings are way more speculative. There’s lots of room to experiment with depicting these animals.

joschuaknuppe.bsky.social•7 days ago

ALSO! @montanoceratops.bsky.social updated the map, which now lets you explore the formations we covered so far better than ever before!
https://montanoceratops.github.io/Formations/

montanoceratops.bsky.social•7 days ago

@solonovamax.bsky.social did most of the technical stuff lol. She has been very helpful with the technical stuff that improves the performance of the site.

sticksandstones.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is truly amazing work. I really like the size reference. 🐦🐊

gulop1th3cuz.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yeah I think I heard somewhere that there was a meiolaniid found at the site.

antallan.bsky.social•6 days ago

V fine! 📌

gulop1th3cuz.bsky.social•7 days ago

Really love the top-down perspective on this one!

A Birds Eye view for a bunch of birds haha!

Heracles inexpectatus is as friend-shaped as ever!

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