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Published: 2011-05-03 14:24:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 9393; Favourites: 202; Downloads: 0
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A huge bull hadrosaur attempts to frighten off an interloper to his magnolia grove in a Lance Formation forest. The bull is based on specimens usually referred to Anatotitan copei, while the smaller individual is based on the "Trachodon mummy" specimen usually referred to Edmontosaurus/Anatosaurus annectens. The skin texture and inflatable nasal structure are also based on evidence from the "mummy" specimen. All Lancian hadrosaurs are probably growth stages of a single species, the oldest available name for which is Thespesius occidentalis.Related content
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I wonder, why don't more people draw scenes featuring Trachodon or Thespesius? Is it because they are nomina dubia? Nah, Epanterias gets a lot of time on the sketchpad because it was so awesome, but I personally consider it a species of Allosaurus.
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Trachodon is tricky, because the type teeth come from a formation with skeletal remains of several hadrosaurs, and nobody has yet done the work to figure out if and how teeth can be attributed to species or even subfamilies.
It's possible that Trachodon = Brachylophosaurus. However there are also indeterminate lambeosaurine remains from Judith River that might be Trachodon. I've heard that some people informally attributed Trachodon teeth as lambeosaurines as opposed to saurolophines.
Plenty of people draw scenes of Thespesius, they just refer to it by the wrong name--Anatotitan
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About Trachodon- People can still draw it. Of course, I draw it looking similar to a Corythosaurus (even though I haven't uploaded any Trachodon pics to dA yet).
About Thespesius- You'd think people would know something like that.
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I feel like these guys are going to come to life any second now. Great work!
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Is that big dewlap on the throat something from an actual fossil specimen or your own creation?
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Apparently there are some undescribed specimens of 'edmontosaurs' with large dewlaps or throat pouches. This was mentioned on the old dinoData forum long ago but I haven't heard anything since (also, long, whip-like tails, which are actually restored in this version but ended up getting hidden by plants).
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That is pretty interesting stuff. Rumors and waiting for descriptions can be a pain though.
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Cool - I like the very colorful and stylized look. The big dewlap looks nice on the big guy. Would love to hear more about it (and the supposed "whip-like" posterior tail) Tracy Ford alluded to in the days of the old DinoData forum...
The right forelimb of the big Edmontosaurus looks kinda odd - is it just a case of me not getting the perspective?
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That's really sort of pretty. I like your flowers.
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Beautiful environment, actually how I imagine the Lance Formation area would have looked then.
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It's extremely evocative! For some reason, this scene reminds me of Tippett's Prehistoric Beast.
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No coincidence, PB was definitely an inspiration, especially for the high contrast and bright shafts of light. It's the first thing that pops into my head when I think of a dinosaur munching flowering plants
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Beautiful - not a word often used in dinosaur pictures, but appropriate here! Great work! As an aside, it is amazing how many dinosaur pictures are devoid of flowers!
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Forgot to add, ironically the gorgeous flowers are one part of Zallinger's Age of Reptiles mural nobody every rips off 
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Yeah, right? When 90% of plant species in the Hell Creek are angiosperms! [link]
Lots of prehistoric magnolias and laurels which I featured in this painting, but also lots of smaller stuff represented by fossil pollen.
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Probably the best hadrosaur picture I've ever seen. The colours and the forest are really beautiful.
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