FINALLY have some new art to share!!! I've been working on this here and there in between commissions, and finally decided it needed to be finished. Here's the Middle Permian pareiasaur, Bradysaurus baini. #paleoart #sciart #scientificillustration #paleontology

May 16, 1891, "The Graphic" newspaper publishes a figure showing British paleontologist Harry Govier Seeley exhibits of a Pareiasaur to the Royal Society - including the living animal above (may not 100% accurate)

Bradysaurus is a pareiasaur, a group of armoured herbivores. As seen in this reconstruction from the display, the armour was an array of bony scutes/osteoderms spread across the back, more like an ankylosaur rather than a proper shelled tortoise/armadillo

Check out this #chonky boi at ESI. It's a pareiasaur, a large, end #Permian reptile that ate plants - an absolute Palaeozoic unit. The name means 'cheek lizard'. Making head frills cool long before ceratopsians got in on the action. #FossilFriday #Smooches

My first #FossilFriday of 2020 has me thinking of all the new discoveries to be made! Here’s Pia Viglietti and I with a big ol’ pareiasaur last summer in #Zambia 🇿🇲 Photo by Steve Tolan #MunyamadziGMA

First pareiasaur paper from my PhD came out in March! Skull of Nochelesaurus. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Second pareiasaur PhD paper came out in May! Postcrania of middle Permian South African forms. wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/3…

#museum30 Day 12, #artwork. Happy #FossilFriday! Here is the original 1897 watercolour by Charles R. Knight depicting Elasmosaurus, reposited American Museum of Natural History

Saiu a nossa nova pesquisa (doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2…) sobre o pareiassauro brasileiro. Os pareiassauros foram répteis do Permiano (extinguiram-se na maior das extinções em massa). Tem +20 espécies no mundo todo. Uma delas viveu no Rio Grande do Sul. [1]

Juntando os nossos achados com os de anos anteriores tínhamos um animal praticamente completo. [6]

Outra coisa que chama a atenção é que muitos dos fósseis foram encontrados a poucos metros uns dos outros e parecem ter morrido ao mesmo tempo. Inclusive esqueletos de jovens e adultos. Isso sugere um grau de sociabilidade em Provelosaurus. [10]

For today's #TomographyTuesday we have an interesting #PublicationSpotlight by Dr Ashley Kruger about ancient fossilized shark egg cases that were studied using #microCT. See more here: orss.ca/paper6 youtu.be/Tc7obgH2wLo

A bevy of Permian pareiasaur skulls in ESI Wits University #FossilFriday

The South African pareiasaur, Bradysaurus from the Permian of South Africa. #FossilFriday

Bradysaurus, pareiasaur from South Africa! MSc Student Van der Brandt exploring their skull morphology #fossilfriday

My last #FossilFriday of 2016: chunky old Bradysaurus seeleyi. A stocky pareiasaur from Mid Permian, up to a tonne in weight. What a smile.

Robert Broom's Pareiasaur sketch