#arambourgiania

[princefluph]

Archovember day 10! Arambourgiania philadelphiae! An Azhdarchid from the late Cretaceous! We actually have information on this one that comes from this year which found out that this pterosaur has a similar structure to soaring birds as opposed to continuous flappers like some other pterosaurs. Watching a 14 ft animal with a 30 ft wingspan soaring way up in the air must have been something incredible to see (although horrifying for those below if youre small and delicious to the Azhdarchids)

[saritapaleo]

Archovember 2024 Day 10 - Arambourgiania philadelphiae

Arambourgiania philadelphiae was a giant azhdarchid from Late Cretaceous Jordan, the largest known azhdarchid, and possibly the largest flying animal to ever exist. It was discovered before its more famous cousins Quetzalcoatlus and Hatzegopteryx, however, it is only known from a slender, 78 cm (31 in) long neck vertebrae and some other fragmentary wing bits. Based on the proportions of its cousins, this would give Arambourgiania an estimated wingspan of 10 metres (33 ft). While the size of a giraffe, air pockets and hollow bones would have made it lighter than one, at around an estimated 227 kg (500 lbs). Like Quetzalcoatlus, it was probably still capable of flight, and based on the makeup of its humerus, was likely a soarer rather than a flapper. Also like its cousins, it was most likely a land-based, stalking predator of smaller animals, and would have only used its massive wingspan to escape threats and move to new hunting grounds.

Arambourgiania’s neck bone was found by a railway worker in the early 1940s, during repairs on the Amman-Damascus railroad near Russeifa. As far as I can find, it is not attributed to a specific formation, and Maastrichtian-age fossil remains in Jordan are scarce. It was likely a hunter of small mammals, lizards, dinosaurs, and amphibians, but its unknown what larger animals Arambourgiania would have encountered. During the maastrichtian, the common dinosaurs of the time would have been ornithopods, ceratopsians, ankylosaurs, pachycephalosaurs, titanosaurs, abelisaurids, ornithomimosaurs, tyrannosauroids, therizinosauroids, dromaeosaurs, troodontids, oviraptorosaurs, alvarezsaurids, and avialans.

This art may be used for educational purposes, with credit, but please contact me first for permission before using my art. I would like to know where and how it is being used. If you don’t have something to add that was not already addressed in this caption, please do not repost this art. Thank you!

[cjcroen1393]

Another set of OCs, only this time, I've been working on them for years now!

A while back, I doodled a boy in an airman outfit palling around with an azhdarchid pterosaur and started drawing them together a whole lot. I put them in a sort of Dinotopia-esque setting wherein humans and prehistoric animals coexist.

This is one of the works I have in mind that I do genuinely want to publish someday! I'm definitely thinking of doing so with this alongside the monster school idea I'm working on.

I have a LOT of content for these two and the other people and creatures that live in their world, so there's more to come!

PS: Yes I know the shading on the third image is shit. I'm not used to shading.

[godzillawithahoodie7]

in my turf.

[kindercelery]

Dottie N’ Bruce

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Avemetatarsalia: the group that includes Pterosaurs and Dinosaurs

As per usual, you have everything you need to care for the animal and are completely prepared. The animal will not eat you and will be your companion. Yes, even the Azhdarchids. If you can ride a T. rex into traffic, you can ride a Quetzalcoatlus into the clouds.

I had to extend beyond dinosaurs for this poll because, unfortunately, most flying birds aren't quite big enough, and also, I know we all want to ride pterosaurs.

Assume all options can hold your weight because I'm not sure any could and this is just for fun

[thedrawinggizzard]

Arambourgiania philadelphiae

Arambourgiania is an azdarchid pterosaur from the late cretaceous, and is one of several of these pterosaurs to potentially be the largest flying animal ever (along with Hatzegopteryx and Quetzalcoatlus northropi). The type species, A. philadelphinae, was found in Jordan, but similar remains found in North America and Morocco tentatively assigned to the genus could mean it had an almost worldwide distrubution.

The remains we have of Arambourgiania are quite fragmentory, so I decided to be a little experimental with my reconstruction, namely in the shape of its head crest. I originally wanted to colour this piece in, but I got distracted by other things and I kinda like how it is. I still might eventually get round to it though.

Also couldnt decide which photo of it to go with soooo... have a bonus version :)

[gillywillys]

Archovember day ten! Arambourgiania Philadelphiae

wanted to try a nice background this time, this one was actually pretty quick

Archovember is by @/saritapaleo

[tym-0n]

Long necked flying giant Arambourgiania

[skelizard]

This one for Invozer on Art Fight of their arambourgiania lad.

[milfspiggy]

hey i dont think- i dont think thats what they look like.

[cinnasaur]

i seriously wish i could personally see a living pterosaur in person more than any other group of extinct animal, like. despite having learned so much about them and generally understanding what they would have looked like, not to mention recent media like prehistoric planet depicting them in such a lifelike way, i still think it would be hard to comprehend the sight of one in the flesh. i think an azhdarchid would be a more terrifying sight than pretty much anything i can think of

[cjcroen1393]

Some old art of my "dinosaur-human coexistence" concept, featuring characters OTHER than the protagonists!

These characters are Maria and her son Davey. They run an inn that Ben sometimes stays in during his travels. Maria's companion is a Tetrapodophis named Fourfeet and Davey's is a Rahonavis named Cloudy, whom he's trying to teach how to talk.

The next pair are Ren (blue hair and pronouns) and Irwin (blond hair). Ren is a person living on an island to the east of the continent working to become a veterinarian. They actually become Ben's love interest when he and Windryder crash land in front of their family's home. Their companion is a Leptoceratops. Irwin is a boy who lives on an island to the west of the continent and he and Ben get wrapped up in an adventure involving pirates. His companion is an elasmosaur named Nessarose.

These two are Alon and Typhoon. Alon is Ben's grandfather and a fisherman who trains pterosaurs to fish with him like cormorants. His main pterosaur is Typhoon, an albino pteranodontid (originally meant to just straight up be a Pteranodon, but I'm thinking of changing him to a Tethydraco) who's been with him for nearly forty years.

And this image is just a better picture of Ren, since I feel like the one with their Leptoceratops friend didn't show enough detail.

All these characters belong to me!

[saritapaleo]

Archovember is here once again! Looooots of theropods this year. Also a lot more dinosaurs in general than other archosaurs. Sorry. There were just too many I wanted to add!

I also apologize that there are several redraws in this list… I included a couple animals I’ve drawn for past Archovembers that I wasn’t quite happy with (7 to be exact, oop). If you’ve been drawing along since the beginning and don’t feel like drawing a repeat, feel free to substitute a related species!

For new folks: this is my “Draw Dinovember” list that I expanded out to include other archosauriforms. I started doing this a few years ago to challenge myself to draw species I’ve never drawn before and/or ones that don’t get a lot of attention. Feel free to join in! You can do the whole list, just the dinosaurs (the names in green), just the pterosaurs (orange), just the pseudosuchians (blue), just the 3 oddballs (red), just your favorites, just ones you’ve never drawn before, pick one blindly, roll a D20 and a D10 and draw the sum of whichever numbers you get, etc. Just make sure they’re posted on or after their specific day! You can use #Archovember or #Archovember2024, as those are the tags I follow. Be as detailed or as sketchy as you’d like! I’ll be leaving the story highlights on my Instagram (also SaritaPaleo) from last year’s Archovember up until November 1st, if you’d like to see what people have done in the past! (This challenge usually gets a lot more traction on Instagram; so I would recommend checking it out there if you have one!)

As a disclaimer that I am obligated to give every year: when you are looking for refs for some of these species you will come across David Peters. This guy posts a lot of pseudoscientific images featuring lesser-known species, and his stuff can sometimes dominate search results. Do not trust anything from sites called “Reptile Evolution” or “The Pterosaur Heresies.” Peters’ constant outpouring of material has a habit of clogging up search results, misleading and tripping up people who may be trying to get into paleoart. He fooled me when I was first starting out! If you’re drawing along and are having trouble finding legit references, send me a message and I can send you what I’m using!

Anyway, here is the list in case the above graphic can’t be read:

1. Your Choice!

2. Other - Protorosaurus speneri

3. Dinosaur - Gorgosaurus libratus

4. Pterosaur - Preondactylus buffarinii

5. Dinosaur - Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum

6. Pseudosuchian - Razanandrongobe sakalavae

7. Dinosaur - Vespersaurus paranaensis

8. Other - Euparkeria capensis

9. Dinosaur - Spiclypeus shipporum

10. Pterosaur - Arambourgiania philadelphiae

11. Dinosaur - Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus

12. Pseudosuchian - Armadillosuchus arrudai

13. Dinosaur - Shingopana songwensis

14. Pterosaur - Cuspicephalus scarfi

15. Dinosaur - Saturnalia tupiniquim

16. Pterosaur - Caelestiventus hanseni

17. Dinosaur - Koreaceratops hwaseongensis

18. Pseudosuchian - Lotosaurus adentus

19. Dinosaur - Pelagornis sandersi

20. Pterosaur - Anurognathus ammoni

21. Dinosaur - Jakapil kaniukura

22. Pseudosuchian - Purussaurus brasiliensis

23. Dinosaur - Ledumahadi mafube

24. Pseudosuchian - Sillosuchus longicervix

25. Pterosaur - Pteranodon longiceps

26. Dinosaur - Compsognathus longipes

27. Other - Tanystropheus longobardicus

28. Pseudosuchian - Eurycephalosuchus gannanensis

29. Pterosaur - Campylognathoides zitteli

30. Dinosaur - Iguanodon bernissartensis

[kindercelery]

Dottie redesign

[mrultra100]

I dunno about you guys, but with this year possibly being a big one for paleomedia as a whole (A new Jurassic World movie, ON TOP of two big budget paleodocs being the main examples), perhaps we could FINALLY see PHP return for a third season. While I'm not gonna go ramble on about how I think this hypothetical Season 3 will be the last one to close out the series (along with cementing a trilogy in the same vein as Planet Earth), but I am gonna bring up a little thought experiment that me and some of my Discord buddies came up with and discussed.

I've heard quite a few folks say that they want PHP to move away from the Maastrichtian epoch from the end of the Cretaceous, but I've also seen people mention how this particular chunk of geologic time still has plenty of usable taxa to put in the show, even after 2 entire seasons' worth of species. Not only are many dinosaurs still left on the tale, so are many non-dinosaur animals as well; Pterosaurs, marine reptiles, mammals, fish, birds, etc. This is just a quick lil' list to point out the candidates that could appear in future episodes, as a huge part of me feels like the show is gonna remain within the Maastrichtian for the time being. And for a funny coincidence, the amount of animals that I was able to put together between my own research and suggestions from?

SIXTY. SIX.

As in, the geologic time that the entire show takes place in ("Planet Earth, 66 million years ago" and all that). You can imagine the surprise that I had when I accidently reached that number.

Anyhoo, let's hop to it

Ankylosaurus

Gallimimus

Dryptosaurus

Ocepechelon

Arambourgiania

Denversaurus

Thescelosaurus

Rhabdodon

Shantungosaurus

Coahuilaceratops

Leptoceratops

Regaliceratops

Alaskacephale

Ampelosaurus

Noasaurus

Alioramus

Falcatakely

Torosaurus

Patagonykus

Epapatelo

Mahajangasuchus

Zarafasaura

Gavialimimus

Champosaurus

Habrosaurus

Didelphodon

Bharattherium

Purgatorius

Cretalamna

Stratodus

Pycnonemosaurus

Maip

Stegorous

Thalassotitan

Ajnabia

T. mcraeensis (As in, the new Tyrannosaurus species described in 2023)

Khinjaria

Eoneophron

Patagomaia

Augustynolophus

Plotosaurus

Pleisotylosaurus

Tylosaurus

Hydrotherosaurus

Morenosaurus

Anzu

Bonnerichthys

Sinoceratops

Zhuchengtyrannus

Acheroraptor

Saurolophus

Thoracosaurus

Borealosuchus

Armadillosuchus

Saltasaurus

Palaeosaniwa

Avisaurus

Potamornis

Brachychampsa

Enchodus

Alphadon

Adocus

Serpentisuchops 

Charonosaurus

Asteronis

Sahonachelys

Like I said; 66 different species just WAITING for their time to shine. And given how it's almost been 3 years since the show originally came out, the same timeframe that S1 had between 2019 and 2022 could also apply to this hypothetical third season (and this theory is helped even more by the idea that S2 was originally material that was scrapped by S1).

We've got a full year to wait and see if we get anything new with this show, so we've got plenty of time to speculate before we find out anything.

Many thanks to my Discord peeps for coming along for this fun thought experiment. You guys rock!