Yutyrannus huali
Pencil on paper, 2022
29,7 x 21 cm
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”
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”
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.
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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
Gomphotherium angustidens (Proboscidea) & Xenokeryx amidalae (Palaeomerycidae), Miocene, Europe
Ink, 2017
100 x 70 cm
Art & Vielfalt – Impressionen aus der Tierwelt, 2018, Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg
Sinoceratops zhuchengensis (Centrosaurinae), Late Cretaceous, China
Watercolour, 2017
70 x 50 cm
Art & Vielfalt – Impressionen aus der Tierwelt, 2018, Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg
Stegosaurus stenops (Thyreophora), Ornitholestes hermanni (Maniraptora) & Williamsonia sp. (Bennettitales), Late Jurassic, North America
Pencil, 2017
70 x 50 cm
Art & Vielfalt – Impressionen aus der Tierwelt, 2018, Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg
Mastodonsaurus giganteus (Temnospondyli) & Thecodontosaurus antiquus (Sauropodomorpha), Upper Triassic, Europe
Watercolour & acrylic paint on paper, 2017/18
70 x 50 cm
Art & Vielfalt – Impressionen aus der Tierwelt, 2018, Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg
Keratocephalus moloch (Dinocephalia) & Atherstonia minor (Actinopterygii), Late Permian, South Africa
Acrylic on canvas, 2017
70 x 50 cm
Art & Vielfalt – Impressionen aus der Tierwelt, 2018, Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg
Quetzalcoatlus northropi (Azhdarchidae) & Alamosaurus sanjuanensis (Titanosauria), Late Cretaceous, North America
Pencil, 2017
29,5 x 21 cm
Hatzegopteryx thambema (Azhdarchidae) & Balaur bondoc (Avialae), Late Cretaceous, Romania
Pencil, 2017
29,5 x 21 cm
Pteranodon (“Geosternbergia“) sternbergi (Pterodactyloidea), Late Cretaceous, North America
Pencil, 2017
29,5 x 21 cm
Rhamphorhynchus muensteri (Rhamphorhynchidae) & Leptolepides sprattiformis (Pachycormiformes), Late Jurassic, Europe
Pencil, 2017
29,5 x 21 cm
Ctenochasma elegans (Ctenochasmatidae), Late Jurassic, Europe
Pencil, 2017
29,5 x 21 cm
Batrachognathus volans (Anurognathidae) & Palaeolepidopterix aurea (Micropterigidae), Late Jurassic, Kazakhstan
Pencil, 2017
29,5 x 21 cm
Campylognathoides liasicus (Campylognathoididae) & Peloneustes philarchus (Pliosauroidea), Middle Jurassic, Europe
Pencil, 2017
29,5 x 21 cm
Eudimorphodon ranzii (Campylognathoididae), Late Triassic, Europe
Pencil, 2017
29,5 x 21 cm
South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus) & Australasian pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae), New Zealand
The moa were ratites in nine species in New Zealand, whereof Dinornis robustus was the biggest. They were hunted until extinction within 100 years by the ancestors of the Maori that migrated at the end of the 13th century.
Pencil, 2016/17
59,5 x 42 cm
Cycadeoidea sp. (Bennettitales) with leaves of Pterophyllum-type. The ground is mainly populated with herbaceous ferns of the genus Hausmannia. In the background are Araucaria, iguanodontians and Monanthesia sp.
Coloured pencil, 2017
48 x 34 cm
The picture was developed with friendly support of paleobotanist Dr. Lutz Kunzmann from Senckenberg Dresden.
Homotherium latidens (Machairodontinae), Pleistocene, Eurasia
Enhanced incisor
Polyester resin, painted with acrylic
ca. 90 cm
Remittance work for the special exhibition „Die Eiszeit-Jägerin | Säbelzahnkatzen – die tödliche Gefahr“ paläon – Forschungs- und Erlebniszentrum Schöninger Speere
Sebecus icaeorhinus was a crocodile that was about 2-3 metres long and lived in the Eocene in South America. It has several similarities with dinosaurs, so separate teeth were interpreted as teeth of theropods and a survival of dinosaurs in South America to the Tertiary was supposed until they were definitely collated.
Pencil, 2015
70 x 42 cm
Art & Vielfalt – Impressionen aus der Tierwelt, 2016, Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg
Eurhinosaurus longirostris (Ichthyosauria), Early Jurassic, Europe
Pencil, 2016
40 x 29,5 cm
Art & Vielfalt – Impressionen aus der Tierwelt, 2016, Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg
Eryops megacephalus (Temnospondyli), Early Permian, USA
Coloured pencil, 2014/16
42 x 29,5 cm
Corythosaurus casuarius (Lambeosaurinae), Late Cretaceous, North America
Pencil, 2013/16
29,5 x 21 cm
Styracosaurus albertensis (Centrosaurinae), Late Cretaceous, North America
Pencil, 2013
59,5 x 42 cm
Prenocephale prenes (Pachycephalosauria), Late Cretaceous, Mongolia
Plaster, painted with oil paint, 2012/13
Smilodon fatalis, a well known saber-toothed cat from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles and state fossil of California; Late Pleistocene, USA
Ink, 2012
29,5 x 21 cm