#ceolophysis

[jurassicjoowan]

Ghost Ranch

An arid region out in New Mexico, the resting ground of many a Ceolophysis.

[big-red-velociraptor]

Sorry Friends!

I know this unannounced hiatus has lasted a few months now, and it will be a few more.

My current living situation is... Unfortunate. At the moment. In the meantime Big Red and Co. have been tucked into a box in my storage unit for their safety.

It took me longer than I'd like to have made this post to explain my absence, but that's just how it goes with mental health sometimes. Im doing better now, and focusing on the projects I can manage!

I did collect some new friends on my recent trip to boulder to see a show (planned and budgeted for before I started this blog), you can have this preview for now until it's time for Big Red to return!

This member is a ceolophysis, and they don't have a name yet! Maybe you all have some suggestions? :)

[tyrantisterror]

A Hundred Some New ATOM Kaiju Pt. 1

So, for about five years or so now I've had, oh, a hundred or so ATOM kaiju sketches that have just been sitting waiting for me to ink and color them. But I've come to accept that I just cannot produce art as quickly as I did in my twenties, and the prospect of me actually finding time/energy/a lack of throbbing pain in my hands to do so is, uh... slim. And I think that's kind of sad, because these guys deserve to have some time to shine.

So, over the next couple days (because I'm pretty sure Tumblr's image posting limit won't let me do it all at once) I'm going to share them with you, for my own enjoyment. And we'll start, as is proper, with some retrosaurs.

First, some from the tiny tyrant clade. We've got a Jurassic Park dilophosaur homage and one inspired by Saltopusuchus (my dad's favorite dinosaur from his childhood dinosaur book, purely because he pronounced its name "SaltopoSUCKus" - unfortunately for my dad, saltoposuchus is actually a crocodylomorph, though there is a dinosaur named Saltopus. Maybe his childhood book was confused?). There's a trio of ceolophysis-inspired ones who I envisioned as a sort of kaiju Team Rocket - they're got arm membranes to show that they're sort of a missing link between Tiny Tyrants and Flying Tyrants, and because it makes them look like they've got little dramatic villain capes. And a more 80's style dromaeosaur-inspired retrosaur than Colossaraptor, who obviously takes more from 90's retrosaur dromaeosaurs/JP raptors.

Next, a pair of Flying Tyrants. The first was a result of me looking at a Quetzalcoatlus skeleton and thinking just how fucking weird their proportions were, and the later is inspired by rhamphorhynchus, perhaps one of the most fucked up little guys in the fossil record.

The final four of this section: a primitive carnivorous retrosaur inspired by the Crystal Palace Megalosaurus statue, a Bronton-sized True Tyrant inspired by the exaggerated depictions of Giganotosaurus in pop culture, a shark-like true tyrant inspired by Carcharadontosaurus, and finally... Tirontus. Tirontus is specifically inspired by the the 1960 film adaptation of The Lost World:

Which uses perhaps the most reprehensible of all atom age special effects, slurpasaurs. And I feel like even in its time no one bought this shit - any child would take the scene where Claude Rains says, "Look, a tyrannosaurus rex!" at what is clearly an iguana with rubber horns glued to its head and say, "That's not at all what a T.rex looks like. I've read books, dude." It's ridiculous.

And wouldn't it be funny if there was an ATOM story where some scientist finds a retrosaur kaiju that looks like, well, just a big lizard, and tries to pass it off as another Tyrantis? "No, no, this isn't just a big iguana, it's a tyrannosaurus rex!" So that's Tirontus, the false Tyrantis.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Hi Dinosauraday, as a biologist (in training, finishing up my bachelor's degrees (plural) atm) I love you and your work here to spread the good word of dinosaurs including the extant ones!

I wanted to ask, have you heard of/watched/do you have an opinion on PBS Eons on YouTube?

Also just because it's fun to say, my favourite kind of Dinosaurs are Ceolophysis! Keep up the good work!

Thank you! Good luck on finishing your degree!

I really enjoy Eons. They sometimes don't communicate something the way I would, but they make great content and really bring a good understanding of prehistoric life to a lot of people

[outbackranger108]

First and Second Gen TD Characters as Mesozoic Creatures

This is just a list I made to show my thoughts on which animal from the Mesozoic era each TD contestant from the first and second gen would be the most similar to.

Gwen - Velociraptor

Trent - Parasaurolophus

Bridgette - Plesiosaurus

Geoff - Archelon

Duncan - Deinonychus

Courtney - Triceratops

Lindsay - Ceolophysis

Tyler - Ornithomimus

Heather - Tyrannosaurus Rex

Noah - Pteranodon

Cody - Microraptor

DJ - Argentinosaurus

Owen - Xenotarsosaurus

Izzy - Gallimimus

Harold - Ornithocheirus

Leshawna - Stegosaurus

Beth - ???

Justin - Rhamphorhynchus

Katie - ???

Sadie - ???

Eva - ???

Ezekiel - Placerias

Alejandro - Allosaurus

Sierra - Oviraptor

Mike - Dilophosaurus

Zoey - ???

Cameron - Troodon

Dawn - ???

Brick - Brachiosaurus

B - ???

Dakota - Dakotaraptor

Sam - Deinosuchus

Scott - Chirostenotes

Jo - Giganotosaurus

Lightning - Ankylosaurus

Anne Maria - Jaxartosaurus

Staci - ???

Let me some of your thoughts or ideas in the comments for which Mesozoic animal you think a TD character is similar to.

[shurikensgang]

Here Terra, have some more photos from FMM UV-32

And the dinosaurs shown here are Iguanadon and Ceolophysis.

At this point she has a collection.

[hasellia]

Here's the google Docs, but I'm gonna upload it tumblr as it's own video and link it back here.

i’m watching the behind the scenes feature on the walking with monsters dvd and there’s just a random clip of a coelophysis doing a kickflip

[goldenchocobo]

Dinocember day 15: Coelophysis

Sighting by two terrified campers cabin-goers

[lizzyartsy]

Did you know the dinosaur, ceolophysis, was known to chow down on its own young from time to time?

Get the sticker here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/lawkbutt/works/42249516-ceolophysis-skull-plant-mistletoe-dinosaur?asc=u&p=sticker

[thecoffeeisblack]

Tattoo concept variations. I'm leaning for just solid black, but I'm playing for it moving into fall leave colors, but I think with my skin it's probably going to work best as a black and white.

Much of my journey for this trip has been following collections and ancient trackways, and looking at the scaled down modern dinosaurs we are living with now. So I sampled some 3 toed Jurassic footprints, with Allosaurus being the largest, Eubrontes gigantes (possibly Dilophosaurus or a close cousin), Ceolophysis, and the last 2 are little ones are modern Corvids, a Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos), and a Bluejay (Cyanocitta cristata).

I know it's not as chronologically accurate as I would like, but the visual sizing works, and the time period kind of does for the types of rocks around the Connecticut River Valley and Western, Massachusetts, plus I get to use the Eubrontes which is a specific example from that area.

Anyway, I'm thinking of getting it done tomorrow at the smaller scale in the 4th image.

[artisticthingem]

I finally revamped and finished an old pic I did for Halloween a few years back, and I’m glad to call it done! Ceolophysis, a small carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Triassic, known from dozens of fossils from Ghost Ranch, New Mexico--seen here revisiting its old haunts...

[rainbowrosegames]

Fresh sending support over to the NM Kingdom and The Simps that reside there.

[thegremlincat]

aaand entry for dinovember nr 22, Ceolophysis

[thepurpleglass]

It’s Ghost Ranch, of course!

10/31/22 Fukuiraptor & Farm

[mcnotok]

Sending some rad support to our radical dark pals of negative energy over at the NM kingdom! We got the job done fast with our rad worker Dinos!

Ankylosaurus

Ceolophysis

Centrosaurus

Brachiosauruses

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OUR ARMADA GROWS EVER STRONGER

OUR FORMER GLORY WILL BE RESTORED IN NOT TIME

[greggorylee]

added a bit more to the snout since im making a ceolophysis! 🦖