#placoderm

[raptorbricksart]

Deep in the ancient oceans, lurks the mighty Dunkleosteus. A bit of Blockbench paleo art from a little while back i never posted.

Based on the recent, more rotund, reconstruction of D. terrelli, still quite the fearsome beast!

Been some time since i did any paleoart so it was great to finally get back to it again!

Let me know what you think!

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

The amount of interesting research about placoderms in recent years gives me life.

They are such goobers.

Dunkleostes, Amazichthys, Alienacanthus and Entelognathus

[teethands]

piece i submitted for a public art exhibit last month but it wasnt accepted

[panthalassaunited]

Quick sketch of Dunkleosteus terreli.

[weepingwidar]

Konstantin Korobov (Russian, 1985) - Fish (2023)

[lil-tachyon]

What is the best fish, and why is it Dunkleosteus?

Because everything about it is perfect.

Old dunk drawings below the break:

[ppaleoartistgallery]

#Paleostream 26/10/2024

here's today's #Paleostream sketches!!! today we sketched Cambropachycope, Onychodus (i only drew the tooth whirl), Xenodens, and Lyrarapax (I drew, L. unguispinus)

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

AUGHHHHHHHH WHY DID PLACODERMS GO EXTINCT WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE COULD’VE HAD AN ALL UNIQUE GROUP OF FISH AS WONDERFUL AS CARTILAGINOUS FISH AND RAY-FINS AND LOBE-FINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BONE TEETH APEX PREDATORS COULD’VE BEEN OURS TO SEE!!!!!!! WE SHOULD’VE BEEN ABLE TO SEE HER AND PET HER!!!!! I SHOULD’VE BEEN ABLE TO!!!!! IT’S NOT FAIIRRRRRRRRRRRR

[sombertide-0]

PALEOART BE UPON YE

shown here are dunkleosteus, gastornis, inostrancevia and opabinia!

[alphynix]

With its armored head and blade-like jaws, the placoderm fish Dunkleosteus terrelli is an iconic Paleozoic animal.

Living during the Late Devonian, about 375-359 million years ago, in subtropical waters covering parts of what are now North America and Europe, this species is known mostly just from the bony plates that covered its head and thorax. The rest of its skeleton was cartilaginous and rarely ever fossilized (only a few vertebrae and the pectoral fin are currently known), so its full body shape and size is poorly understood, and previous length estimates have ranged all the way up to 10m (33').

…Except it turns out it wasn't nearly that big.

Based on its head proportions, along with comparisons to more complete remains of other arthrodire placoderms, recent studies instead come up with a maximum length of about 4m (~13ft) – giving Dunkleosteus a much shorter-but-heavier chunky body shape, more like a tuna than a shark.

But even after this size revision Dunkleosteus would have still been one of the largest animals around at the time, with the ability to snap its jaws open at high speed and an incredibly strong bite force. It was probably specialized to mainly prey on other heavily-armored animals such as other placoderms and shelled cephalopods, and was likely a strong swimmer with a shark-like tail fin.

Preserved stomach contents in one fossil show remains of the fast-swimming cartilaginous fish Orodus – suggesting that much like the modern tuna it resembled, Dunkleosteus was also capable of bursts of high speed.

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[makairodonx]

It’s been quite a year since Dunkleosteus terreli, the 4.5-meter-long King of the Placoderms that had the most powerful bite force of any fish living or extinct, made news with to this groundbreaking study:

[sinosauropteryx--prima]

So I was reading about placoderms (as one does) and in one article I found this scientific diagram of them mating and… why do they look like this? Why do they look so surprised and concerned? Did someone just walk in on them? But also they look like they don‘t know what the fuck is happening to them? They really look like this is an accident and they don’t know how to stop. If they told me that they slipped and fell I would believe them

Those were the first vertebrates to ever have sex and the artist really wanted to make sure that that was obvious.

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the Devonian Hunsrück Slate #Paleostream! 

Look at all these weird little critters!

[toadalled]

Dunkleosteus? More like Chunkleosteus!

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

Eastmanosteus, the second piece of the placoderms in the sky series

Also, tomorrow (1 hour, 36 minutes) is my birthday

Well more specific 12:58 am Eastern Daylight Saving Time

[mesozoicmarket]

A fossilized placoderm of a Coccosteus cuspidatus from the Sandwick Fish Beds in Orkney, Scotland. This genus of arthrodiran armored fish was very small compared to its more famous relatives like Dunkleosteus, and was often used to reconstruct these larger genera due to its similar appearances. However, recent revisions in the size estimates of large placoderms suggests that scaling them to Coccosteus is not accurate, and many of its larger relatives are significantly smaller than previously assumed.