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Liaoning Scene: Microraptor and Sinornithosaurusby *EWilloughby

Digital Art / Drawings / Animals

I consider this to basically be my magnum opus of paleoart at this point in time, and is the final illustration for the evolution book. I've spent months on all of the details and shading. The full resolution version is about five times larger than this one. I am SO glad it is finally finished.

This represents a hypothetical scene from the Jehol group of early Cretaceous Liaoning of China, something like 122 million years ago. Several animals from the Yixian formation are represented here: Sinornithosaurus millennii, a feathered dromaeosaurid dinosaur; Liaoxitriton zhongjiani, a salamander; Alloraphidia, a snakefly; Epicharmeropsis, a mayfly, and a dead Callobatrachus, a frog.

The gliding dinosaurs are meant to be generic microraptorine dinosaurs, not Microraptor gui specifically, in order to avoid the slight anachronism caused by placing Microraptor and Sinornithosaurus in the same scene. Despite that, it is (obviously) based on Microraptor gui (I started this scene before I learned that the two animals were not quite contemporary, I admit).

This illustration will be the section header for the chapter on feathered dinosaurs for the book on evolution and religion that I'm currently working on with a few other people, including ~Agahnim and ~keesey. Once again, thank you ~MattMart and especially Agahnim for many critiques and suggestions.

To see a larger version, please click here. DA's compression screws up the colors when I upload a larger version here, so I'm linking to it externally.

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Liaoning Scene: Microraptor and Sinornithosaurus by *Ferahgo-the-Assassin "This highly detailed and realistic art depicts what northeastern China might have looked like 122 million years ago. In addition to artistic quality, it shows animals living alongside each other and includes the primitive feathers found on the fossils of the Sinornithosaurus and Microraptor." ( Suggested by ~Agahnim and Featured by `WDWParksGal )