Tag: paleontology

Yutyrannus huali

Pencil on paper, 2022

29,7 x 21 cm

Sauropelta edwardsorum & Gobiconodon ostromi, Early Cretaceous, North America

Acrylic and oil paint on canvas, 2020

40 x 30 cm

Eurasian Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) with cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis)

Oil paint on paper, 2018

40 x 30 cm

Animals of Pleistocene Europe: cave lions (Panthera spelea), Ice Age musk ox (Ovibos pallantis) & woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)

Acrylic & oil paint on paper, 2020

42 x 29,5 cm

Commissioned work for the Project “Geolehrpfad Holzkirchen”

Animals of Pleistocene Europe: Eurasian auerochs (Bos primigenius primigenius), woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) & giant deer (Megaloceros giganteus)

Acrylic & oil paint on paper, 2020

42 x 29,5 cm

Commissioned work for the Project “Geolehrpfad Holzkirchen”

Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas)

Acrylic & oil paint on canvas, 2019

40 x 30 cm

Hezhengia bohlini (Antilopinae), Miocene, China

H. bohlini was a species of bovid that was found in the Liushu Formation at the Linxia Basin in China. Most likely it was a mixed feeder doing both grazing and browsing.

Coloured pencil, 2020

32 x 24 cm

Plesiaddax depereti (Urmiatherini), Miocene, Eurasia

The Urmiatherini, which are close related to modern goat-antelopes (Caprini), are an extinct group of very diverse-looking bovids. One genus of them was Plesiaddax, which had horns different from any today’s forms, but a body similar to extant wildebeests (Connochaetes). According to this it was a resident of more open habitats, where it fed mostly on grass.

Coloured pencil, 2020

30 x 24 cm

Thaleroceros radiciformis, Lower – Middle Pleistocene, East Africa

This antelope is probably a member of the reedbuck-relatives (Reduncini). This is supposed on account of the direction of the horns and the presence of a second pair of horns. This feature is sometimes visible in modern reedbucks. According to Prof. Dr. Hans Reck (1886-1937), who described the fossil, this second pair of horns were not covered by keratin. Because of the scarce remains, which show not much more than the impressive horns, its systematic position remains unclear.

Coloured pencil, 2020

32 x 24 cm

Allosaurus fragilis (Carnosauria), Late Jurassic, North America

Acrylic paint on paper, 2019

32 x 24 cm

Udurchukan-Formation with Olorotitan arharensis, nodosaurid und troodontids; Late Cretaceous, Russia

Acrylic- and oil paint on canvas, 2019

4th Price at the “11th International Scientific Dinosaur Illustration Contest 2019”

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Cyprus in the Mesolithic: A man hunts a Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus (Hippopotamus minor). This was a relative to the modern hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) and characterized by a special foot-anatomy which made it walking on just two toes per foot and was an adaption to a more terresric way of life. This specialized hippo became extinct very fast after the arrival of humans on prehistoric Cyprus.

Acrylic paint on paper, 2019

50 x 40 cm

Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi (Placodontia) & Pemphix sueuri (Crustacea); Middle Triassic, Europe

Ink, 2019

42 x 29,5 cm

Private commission

Deinonychus antirrhopus (Dromaeosauridae), Early Cretaceous, USA

Mixed media, 2018

42 x 29,5 cm

Moropus elatus (Chalicotheriidae), Miocene, North America

Oil paint on paper, 2019

42 x 29,5 cm

Hoplophoneus primaevus (Nimravidae), Early Oligocene, North America

Ink, 2019

29,5 x 21 cm

Summary of all fossil Alcelaphini-genera with selected species

Coloured pencil drawings, digitally composed; 2018

The reconstructions were made with kindly support by paleontologist Dr. Faysal Bibi from the Museum for Natural History Berlin.

Carcharocles megalodon (Otodontidae), Miocene – Pliocene, worldwide occurrence

Pencil, 2018/19

32 x 24 cm

The picture was drawn from a petrified specimen at the natural history museum in Waldenburg/Saxony.

Menelikia lyrocera (Bovidae), Pliocene – Pleistocene, East Africa

This medium-sized antelope had horns with transverse ridges and was possibly similar to today’s Nile lechwe / Mrs Gray’s lechwe (Kobus megaceros) in its ecology.

Pencil, 2019

29,5 x 21 cm

The picture was drawn from two exhibits at the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) in Paris.

Selenopeltis buchi (Odontopleuridae), Ordovician, Morocco

Coloured pencil, 2019

21 x 15 cm

The picture was drawn at the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe (SMNK)

Numidocapra crassicornis (Bovidae), Early Pleistocene, North- and East Africa

Fossils of this widespread species were found in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Algeria. Temporary it was placed in Caprinae. A special feature are the horns that curve foreward in side view. The name means “goat from Numidia”, an ancient kingdom in North Africa.

Coloured pencil, 2018

30 x 24 cm

Awashia suwai (Bovidae), Late Pliocene, Ethiopia

A. suwai was found at the Matabaietu formation which is located at the eponymous river Awash in Ethiopia. It lived there about 2,5 million years ago together with hominids like Australopithecus garhi and maybe Paranthropus aethiopicus.

Coloured pencil, 2018

30 x 24 cm

Damalops palaeindicus (Bovidae), Late Pliocene, South Asia

This is a notably species in two aspects: on the one hand it is the only known alcelaphine outside of Africa, on the other hand its horn form is very simple compared to other Alcelaphini. D. palaeindicus lived during the Pinjor formation about 2,5 million years ago in the area of today’s Siwaliks (southern Himalayas) in India. There are also remains from the Republic of Tajikistan.

Coloured pencil, 2018

30 x 24 cm

Parmularius maasaicus (Bovidae); Pleistocene, East Africa

A medium-sized alcelaphine which was only found at Olduvai Gorge. I could be an ancestor of the extant hartebeests (Alcelaphus). It was named in honor of the Maasai people who live in the Olduvai Gorge area.

Coloured pencil, 2018

30 x 24 cm

Megalotragus kattwinkeli (Bovidae), Pleistocene, East Africa

M. kattwinkeli is with expected 250 kg one of the biggest alcelaphines and closely related to the modern wildebeest. The horn cores vary a lot in this species, from a more compressed type with their tips curving inwards in smaller specimens to a more elongated type in bigger individuals. There is also a tendency to a domed skull with hollows, but not as distinct like that in Megalotragus atopocranion. The locality of M. kattwinkeli is the famous Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania. Here it occured with Paranthropus boisei, Homo habilis and Homo erectus. It was named after the German paleontologist and neurologist Wilhelm Kattwinkel (1866 – 1935).

Coloured pencil, 2018

30 x 24 cm

Megalotragus atopocranion (Bovidae), Late Pleistocene, East Africa

This is the most popular of fossil alcelaphines because of a unique feature in mammals: a domed skull with hollows and air passages, which probably were used for infrasonic communication with fellows. M. atopocranion was a grazer, which was possibly hunted by modern man (Homo sapiens). It is better known under its synonym Rusingoryx atopocranion, named after its location Rusinga Island at Lake Victoria.

Coloured pencil, 2018

30 x 24 cm

Damalborea elisabethae (Bovidae), Middle Pliocene, East Africa

This prehistoric alcelaphine was discovered at the Hadar-Formation in Ethiopia. It lived there about 3,3 million years ago together amongst others with the hominin Australopithecus afarensis. It was named after paleontologist Elisabeth Vrba.

Coloured pencil, 2018

30 x 24 cm

Damalacra neanica (Bovidae), Early Pliocene, South Africa

An alcelaphine that lived about 5,3 – 3,6 million years ago. Probably their feeding niches range from browsers to mixed feeders. D. neanica was about as large as today’s blesbok (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi).

Coloured pencil, 2018

30 x 24 cm

Tyrannosaurus rex during dust bathing; Late Cretaceous, North America

Acrylic and Tempera on paper, 2018

40 x 30 cm

Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis); Pleistocene

Pastel, 2018

60 x 40 cm

Rajasaurus narmadensis (Abelisauridae) & Sanajeh indicus (Alethinophidia), Late Cretaceous, India

Pencil, 2018

29,5 x 21 cm

For “Prehistoric times” magazine, Issue 127

Platybelodon grangeri (Gomphotheriidae) mourning for his ancestors; Miocene, Asia

Ink, 2018

32 x 24 cm

For “Prehistoric times” magazine, issue 127

Barroisiceras onilahyense (Collignoniceratidae), Late Cretaceous, Madagascar

Acrylic and oil paint on paper, 2018

32 x 24 cm

Winner of the 1st price in the category “Amateur Fossil Drawing” at the INTERNATIONAL PALEONTOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATION CONTEST, organized by IPC 5.

Cynognathus crateronotus (Cynodontia), skull and head reconstruction of a therapsid from the Lower and Middle Triassic of the southern hemisphere.

Pencil and watercolour, 2018

32 x 24 cm

For “Prehistoric Times” magazine, issue 126

Wendiceratops pinhornensis (Centrosaurinae) & Stegoceras validum (Pachycephalosauria), Late Cretaceous, North America

Ink, 2018

29,5 x 21 cm

For “Prehistoric Times” magazine, issue 126

Dipterus valenciennesi (Dipnoi) & Asteroxylon eberfeldense (Lycopodiaceae), Middle Devonian, Europe

Acrylic & oil paint on paper, 2018

40 x 30 cm

Megatherium americanum (Folivora), a giant ground sloth depicted without fur because in theory with such a coat these animals would have been overheated in their relative warm environment. Nevertheless this reconstruction is speculative because there is no preserved skin of these animals.

Oil paint on paper, 2018

32 x 24 cm

Cetiosaurus oxoniensis (Sauropoda), Middle Jurassic, England

Pencil, 2017

29,5 x 21 cm

Machairodus giganteus (Machairodontinae), Pliocene, Eurasia

Ink, 2018

29,5 x 21 cm

Barbourofelis fricki (Carnivora), Late Miocene, North America

Ink, 2018

29,5 x 21 cm

For “Prehistoric Times” magazine, issue 125