#Indeterminate Phuwiang Spinosaurid

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

Spinosauridae Series part 2!

And this completes all the spinosaur species that are known from anything even approaching decent material, and even that’s a bit of a stretch! This clade is a bit of a trash pile sometimes.

Featuring from top to bottom:

A very hypothetical reconstruction of Irritator challengeri. All we know from this spinosaur is a skull, so whatever the body looked like is pretty much a total guess. I’ve modeled it after Spinosaurus since they’re closely related in the spinosaur phylogeny, but there’s really no way of knowing what the rest of the body looked like.

Ichthyovenator laosensis, a spinosaud with a weird notched sail and what could possibly be a paddle tail similar to that of Spinosaurus.

And finally, the Indeterminate Phuwiang Spinosaurid (IPS), based on a partial skeleton from Phuwiang, Thailand. It has been referred to Siamosaurus, but since that taxon is a complete garbage fire (see my previous post on the matter) this skeletal material cannot be confidently assigned to Siamosaurus. Honestly even with how fragmentary the IPS is, it was still easier than drawing Irritator, because at least we know roughly what body shape IPS had.