My art in 2023 (2/12)
February: Orthocones Descend. Having moved into a new apartment and made a timeline covering the walls, the paleozoic looked awfully empty, so I made a big effort to expand my horizons and do art showing creatures I’d never drawn before. Showing orthocones descending vertically on their prey made for a fun composition too.
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An #Endoceras #orthocone descends upon an unsuspecting #Pseudogygites #trilobite . While they are often reconstructed swimming sideways, recent studies have shown orthocones actually swam upright in the water column, so I drew them more like a claw game, grabbing prey from the sea floor. This specific trilobite species has in fact been found with an orthocone having taken a bite out of it!
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