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:iconewilloughby:
Here is my rendition of the purported baby megalosauroid, Sciurumimus, perched on a rock by the Bavarian sea as it waits patiently for its mother to return to it. Two pterodactylid pterosaurs comb the beach in the background. From the late Jurassic Rögling Formation of Germany, ~150 mya.

Am I the only one who keeps wanting to call this thing "Scurrymimus" out loud? Or sometimes Screw-you-mimus.
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~Sketchy-raptor Mar 3, 2013  Student General Artist
One question: To what extent would you feather an adult Sciurimimus?

And no, you're not the only one who wants to call it Scurrymimus. The name just feels so apt!
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:iconewilloughby:
Scurrymimus for the win!

I honestly have no idea about an adult, for a few reasons... first of all, it's still some matter of contention whether the Sciurumimus holotype really is a baby megalosauriod or something else. Secondly, we have such little information about the type and extent of feathering in adult megalosauriods that it's really difficult to say anything with conviction, from both the perspective of phylogenetic bracketing and from hard fossil evidence. I would personally reconstruct an adult Sciurumimus with a light coating of type 1 feather-like filaments over most of its body, but without any defined remiges or retrices.
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:iconabekowalski:
I want a pet Scuirumimus now!
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:iconbaryonyx62:
Is that entirely your picture? Because I've seen that in a newspaper... :O_o:
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:icon21gunbunnies:
I love how realistic it looks :D especially the background!
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:icontitano911:
~Titano911 Sep 4, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
This poor is gonna picked on when he get's older because of his name... yet it would be funny to see an ass-kicking theropod with a name that alludes to the fluffy tail of a rodent.
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~MaxterandKiwiKing Aug 7, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
It....is....so....FLUFFY!!!!!!
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Mood: Love ~Evometheus6082 Aug 5, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Now that's a cute dinosaur.
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