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A beaked flying species (the primary mandibles form thevisible beak, but I am still not sure whether I should keep the maxillae and secondary mandibles (see here the "upper jaws" of the blenderjaw: [link] ) hidden inside the mouth to function as tweezers, but I don't know if that is really necessary. flying animals must come up with ways how to save weight, so having unnecessary jaws might be disadvantageous in this respect...

A small mouse-sized animal, where I was trying to experiment with making the small vertebrates a bit insect-like...

A large marine predator roughly the size of an orca

a random head concept, probably for some mid-sized omnivore

A crocodile/phytosaur-like (the placement of the nostrills) semiaquatic ambush predator

And a "clawjaw" which is an ancient lineage that survived all mass extinction events on my planet. This came as a result of thinking about how this new head anatomy came about and how it changed over time. The image on the left shows the jaws loosely hanging down, but the animal can flip them forward full 180 degrees from the resting position, grab prey and then hold it in reach of the secondary jaws to tear the prey to swallowable pieces.

There are many possible spinoffs or the clawjaw's anatomy, for example, the mouth with the can be placed closer to the front of the skull near the base of the primary jaws, but for this sketch, I kind of liked that the clawjaw can retract the jaws during feeding, but that's not the only way it can be done and I'll try to exploit all the possible variants to the full.

I have many other ideas, this basic cranial anatomy is very friendly to being reshaped and rearranged which gives me variety, while being formed from the same elements which gives me consistency, which I tried to demonstrate with the clawjaw, the defining elements are icentifiable, but the arrangement is very different. The examples on the top two thirds of this picture are a bit different than the blenderjaw, their main jaws are still attached to the sides of the skull, but they open sideways, not downwards. I guess I could call them "scissorjaws," once I started naming them after things with blades. XD
There is one more variety I can think of, basically a derivate of the scissorjaws with broad heads and short jaws which close all the way in and only the tips of the jaws touch each other on the midline, not the entire length of the jaw like in the normal scissorjaws.

There is still a lot to be looking forward to, a lot to be experimented with and a lot to be fleshed out!

I finally feel satisfied that I have found what I've been looking for.

Description
top-down left to right:

A beaked flying species (the primary mandibles form thevisible beak, but I am still not sure whether I should keep the maxillae and secondary mandibles (see here the "upper jaws" of the blenderjaw: [link] ) hidden inside the mouth to function as tweezers, but I don't know if that is really necessary. flying animals must come up with ways how to save weight, so having unnecessary jaws might be disadvantageous in this respect...

A small mouse-sized animal, where I was trying to experiment with making the small vertebrates a bit insect-like...

A large marine predator roughly the size of an orca

a random head concept, probably for some mid-sized omnivore

A crocodile/phytosaur-like (the placement of the nostrills) semiaquatic ambush predator

And a "clawjaw" which is an ancient lineage that survived all mass extinction events on my planet. This came as a result of thinking about how this new head anatomy came about and how it changed over time. The image on the left shows the jaws loosely hanging down, but the animal can flip them forward full 180 degrees from the resting position, grab prey and then hold it in reach of the secondary jaws to tear the prey to swallowable pieces.

There are many possible spinoffs or the clawjaw's anatomy, for example, the mouth with the can be placed closer to the front of the skull near the base of the primary jaws, but for this sketch, I kind of liked that the clawjaw can retract the jaws during feeding, but that's not the only way it can be done and I'll try to exploit all the possible variants to the full.

I have many other ideas, this basic cranial anatomy is very friendly to being reshaped and rearranged which gives me variety, while being formed from the same elements which gives me consistency, which I tried to demonstrate with the clawjaw, the defining elements are icentifiable, but the arrangement is very different. The examples on the top two thirds of this picture are a bit different than the blenderjaw, their main jaws are still attached to the sides of the skull, but they open sideways, not downwards. I guess I could call them "scissorjaws," once I started naming them after things with blades. XD
There is one more variety I can think of, basically a derivate of the scissorjaws with broad heads and short jaws which close all the way in and only the tips of the jaws touch each other on the midline, not the entire length of the jaw like in the normal scissorjaws.

There is still a lot to be looking forward to, a lot to be experimented with and a lot to be fleshed out!

I finally feel satisfied that I have found what I've been looking for.