Mesozoic Art: Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals in Art

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Korte, C., Hesselbo, S. P., Ullmann, C. V., Dietl, G., Ruhl, M., Schweigert, G. & Thibault, N. 2015. Jurassic climate mode governed by ocean gateway. Nature Communications 6: 10015. Steve White has been an editor, colourist, inker and artist for almost four decades, beginning his career at Marvel UK on the likes of Care Bears, Transformers and Thundercats in the late eighties before writing for 2000AD, editing for Titan Comics, and being an illustrator on numerous books and magazines. Steve has been contributing editor on several art books for Titan including Dinosaur Art and The Paleoart of Julius Csotonyi. Did Dinosaurs and Pterosaurs 'Glow'? Extinct Archosaurs and the Capacity for Photoluminescent Visual Displays

Beautiful, Big, Bold Dinosaur Books: of Molina-Pérez and Larramendi’s Theropods, Rey’s Extreme Dinosaurs 2, and Parker et al.’s SaurianFleischle, C. V., Wintrich, T. & Sander, P. M. 2018. Quantitative histological models suggest endothermy in plesiosaurs. PeerJ 6: e4955. Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins during Late Cretaceous time. Included in the paleogeographic reconstruction are cold and warm ocean currents. The present-day coastlines and tectonic boundaries of the configured continents are shown in the inset at the lower right. In their introduction, the editors admit that they have not been too strict in including artwork of animals from before or after the Mesozoic. As in the previous two portfolios, there are Eocene and Pleistocene mammals. My impression is that there is an increasing interest in early mammals and pseudosuchian archosaurs, showing the wonderful diversity of crocodile ancestors and relatives.

Sales, M. A. F. & Schultz, C. L. 2017. Spinosaur taxonomy and evolution of craniodental features: evidence from Brazil. PLoS ONE 12, e0187070 Martill, D. M. & Hutt, S. 1996. Possible baryonychid dinosaur teeth from the Wessex Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, England. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 197, 81-84. Naish, D. 2011. Theropod dinosaurs. In Batten, D. J. (ed.) English Wealden Fossils. The Palaeontological Association (London), pp. 526-559. Lingham-Soliar, T. 2000. Plesiosaur locomotion: is the four-wing problem real of merely an atheoretical exercise? Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 217, 45-87.Concavenator: an incredible allosauroid with a weird sail (or hump)... and proto-feathers?, September 2010 However, there are numerous other relevant groups as well, and I did my best to give them fair coverage too. Many of these were alive during the Triassic, including the long-tailed thalattosaurs, the very peculiar hupehsuchians, the (mostly) shellfish-eating placodonts, the fang-toothed helveticosaurs, the nothosaurs, the pistosaurs, and so on. Shared anatomical traits show that some of these groups are close cousins of plesiosaurs and belong with them in a large group termed Sauropterygia; hupehsuchians appear to be close kin of ichthyosaurs (Motani 1999, Motani et al. 2015). Entirely different groups whose affinities lie elsewhere evolved during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, including the marine pachyophiid snakes. Charig, A. J. & Milner, A. C. 1990. The systematic position of Baryonyx walkeri in the light of Gauthier’s reclassification of the theropoda. In Carpenter, K. & Currie, P. J. (eds), Dinosaur Systematics: Approaches and Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, pp. 127-140. Martin-Silverstone, E., Sykes, D. & Naish, D. 2018. Does postcranial palaeoneurology provide insight into pterosaur behaviour and lifestyle? New data from the azhdarchoid Vectidraco and the ornithocheirids Coloborhynchus and Anhanguera. Palaeontology 2018, 1-14. doi: 10.1111/pala/12390 A Review of Robert L. France’s Disentangled: Ethnozoology and Environmental Explanation of the Gloucester Sea Serpent

Fanti, F., Cau, A., Martinelli, A. & Contessi, M. 2014. Integrating palaeoecology and morphology in theropod diversity estimation: a case from the Aptian-Albian of Tunisia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 410, 39-57. Samathi, A., Sander, P. M. & Chanthasit, P. 2021. A spinosaurid from Thailand (Sao Khua Formation, Early Cretaceous) and a reassessment of Camarillasaurus cirugedae from the Early Cretaceous of Spain. Historical Biology doi: 10.1080/08912963.2021.1874372

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Mesozoic Artshowcases twenty of the best artists working in this field, representing a broad spectrum of disciplines, from traditional painting to cutting-edge digital technology. Some provide the artwork for new scientific papers that demand high-end paleoart as part of their presentation to the world at large; they also work for the likes of National Geographicand provide art to museums around the world to illustrate their displays. Other artists are the new rising stars of paleoart in an ever-growing, ever-diversifying field. Taylor, M. A. 1992. Functional anatomy of the head of the large aquatic predator Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus (Plesiosauria, Reptilia) from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Yorkshire, England. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 335, 247-280.