Megalosaurus and Edmarka

This is the first described dinosaur. From the middle Jurassic England, this animal grew to a length of around 30 feet. This is one of the only known theropods from the middle Jurassic, it was originaly restored as a quadraped.

Edmarka rex is a possible late surviving Megalosaur from the late Jurassic of North America. Some scientists consider it to just be a species of Torvosaurs, as Megalosaurs and Torvosaurs are thought to be closely related. I believe the only known specimen is thought to be somewhere between 36 nd 42 feet long.

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Brett

Torvosaurus

This is a reconstruction of the recent Torvosaurus find in Europe. They seemed to have T. rexed up the skull a bit from the fragmentary remains. What was found, seems to be pretty close to the other Torvosaurus material found in the US. So the head should look more like the bottom picture (which is pretty old, notice the incorrect hands) or the one I posted for the Easter Holiday. I couldn't bring myself to make the nasal bridge as high as they did in the recontruction It just looked wrong.


Torvosaurus was a large predator from the late Jurassic. Growing to around 40 feet, and with larger teeth which look similar to tyrannosaurs. This would have been more like the T. rex of the Jurassic, they don't appear to be nearly as common as Allosaurs, so it's been speculated they were more solitary.

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Brett

Giganotosaurus carolinii

I really need to do a new drawing of this guy, both of these are older. The first from 2005 and the second from 2000 (with colors by Jess.) I've always like this animal, a large sauropod hunter from South America with a huge skull. The original material is around 42 feet, some estimate place it at 45 feet but that's the largest I've heard. There is a partial lower jaw from another specimen that's 8% larger so this animal could possibly get close to 50 feet long.

I have learned recently that the skull is much more fragmentary than is commonly known. Theropoda has a post on it. It's from a few weeks ago but it's there:)

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Brett

Saurophaganax

I get a lot of hits on this one over on the regular blog. So I figured I'd post it here. There isn't much known on this theropod. Some vertebrae, some leg bones, but no skull. As I mentioned before this might turn out to not be an allosaur but an early carcharadontosaur, that's how I drew it here.

I actually have been to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and got to see their mount of Saurophaganax (based on Allosaurus.) Unfortunately my camera died and I couldn't get any pictures. I'd like to head up that way again, they have a new Triassic exhibit that I want to check out.

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Brett

Tyrannosaurs part the Third: T. rex!

This is a quicky of a female, we call her the Chocolateosaurus here, I was going for a more drab look on her compared to the male in the next picture.


This is the most current picture of T.rex that I have done. I'm actually not a big fan of the animal. Maybe it's over exposure?


This one (and the next one) was colored by Jess, and the tails are WAAYY to long. But I do like the juvenile rex and triceratops. I drew this one awhile ago so go easy on me.


This was the very first picture of Tyrannosaurus rex I did. The little ones on the side were added for a book, I can't remember what it was called or if it was even used. Depending on who you talk to there are 1 to 3 species in this group. Tyrannosaurus rex, possibly Tyrannosaurus (Tarbosaurus) bataar and Tyrannosaurus (Nanotyrannus) lancensis. It will be interesting to see if they ever come to some sort of conclusion on this but since they only have bones it doesn't seem likely.

Right now I'm just posting a bunch of the older images I have on the computer. I'll interspace some new stuff as well. I've got several colored pictures started:)

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Brett

Tyrannosaurs part the second: Tarbosaurus Attack!

This is the only picture I've done of the Asian tyrannosaur Tarbosaurus. It's attacking a giant hadrosaur also from Asia. I was asked to compete with some other people for this Italian Jurassic Park site. I think I was criticized for the fact that both of the Tarbosaurs feet are off the ground, but I don't speak Italian the Google translator is sometimes very useless, especially with message boards. I don't really see why they couldn't jump a bit, it's not like he's really far off the ground or anything.;)

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Brett

Tyrannosaurs part the first

A hypothetical adult 'Nanotyrannus'. I had watched the NG show that featured 'Jane' and was inspired to draw Jane as a new species of Tyrannosaur. It always bothered me that T. rex is the only large predator at the end of the Cretaceous. Plus, I'm not convinced that Jane is really a juvinile T. rex, the brain case being different as are the teeth. I'm happy to be wrong of course, just new stuff to draw:)


The classic version of Nanotyrannus, a small agile tyrannosaur.


A shot of Jane and her parents. I really just wanted to try a black dinosaur:)

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Brett