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So this is the first work this year. Sitting tyrannosauroid Eotyrannus lengi from the early Cretaceous of southern England.

Eotyrannus is described from a single immature specimen, consisting of an incomplete and unconnected skeleton found on the Isle of Wight. It was a medium-sized predator (approximately 4 meters long), with strong arms and a strong snout with fused nasal bones, adapted to withstand the loads of strong bites. It hunted small and medium-sized animals, which it grabbed with its hands and held to inflict a killer bite. Eotyrannus occupied the middle point in the food chain, the apex-predator in which was the allosauroid Neovenator.

Since the skeleton was found in a fairly fragmentary and scattered state, it is difficult to create an accurate reconstruction of Eotyrannus. Hutt et al. (2001) reconstructed the dinosaur too long-legged, which was corrected in later skeletal reconstructions. Here I took as a basis the work of Scott Hartman: www.deviantart.com/scotthartma… I also picked up a more unusual angle for this work, as well as extensive plumage to hide some speculative body parts. I hope it turned out well.

A black ballpoint pen and white paint, 2020.

Description

So this is the first work this year. Sitting tyrannosauroid Eotyrannus lengi from the early Cretaceous of southern England.

Eotyrannus is described from a single immature specimen, consisting of an incomplete and unconnected skeleton found on the Isle of Wight. It was a medium-sized predator (approximately 4 meters long), with strong arms and a strong snout with fused nasal bones, adapted to withstand the loads of strong bites. It hunted small and medium-sized animals, which it grabbed with its hands and held to inflict a killer bite. Eotyrannus occupied the middle point in the food chain, the apex-predator in which was the allosauroid Neovenator.

Since the skeleton was found in a fairly fragmentary and scattered state, it is difficult to create an accurate reconstruction of Eotyrannus. Hutt et al. (2001) reconstructed the dinosaur too long-legged, which was corrected in later skeletal reconstructions. Here I took as a basis the work of Scott Hartman: www.deviantart.com/scotthartma… I also picked up a more unusual angle for this work, as well as extensive plumage to hide some speculative body parts. I hope it turned out well.

A black ballpoint pen and white paint, 2020.