Painting the Giant Amphibian Antarctosuchus

Just a quick #paleoartprocess video showing how I painted an approximately full-sized #paleoart portrait of the giant Triassic #amphibian #Antarctosuchus. Antarctosuchus belonged to a group of ancient amphibians called temnospondyls, which occupied a niche similar to modern crocodilians, but temnospondyls occupied that ecological space before crocodiles as we know them had even evolved! Antarctosuchus was just over 2 meters long (about 7 feet) and its skull was discovered in the Late Triassic rocks of Antarctica by a team of paleontologists including Christian Sidor, who advised on this project. The painting was commissioned by the Burke Museum in Seattle Washington, and is now on display as part of a new exhibit about the evolution of amphibians. The mastermind behind this exhibit is Dr. Bryan Gee, a paleontologist studying the evolution of temnospondyls like Antarctosuchus.

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