Two Silesaurus opolensis, that odd beaked pre-dinosaur with the odd limbs and such. Awesome teeth. More a study of making these near-dinosaurs into more croc-like figures, including the heavily scaled tail rather than a slender, pebbly-textured one. I kind of flubbed it on the squamation, and have been sitting on this for the last year simply because I wasn't perfectly satisfied with what I was trying to do with it (the tail is incomplete). But I won't finish this peace because of that, and will rather redo something similar.
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Good work anyway; you got the oddness of these critters quite neatly; looking like neither a theropod/early saurischian, nor a primitive ornithischian, but similar to both.
Beautiful drawing otherwise, your detail work, scales, teeth etc. are stunning!
I don't disagree with dissenters on this point, and the technical issue should be resolved before I absolutely defend bunny-hands on silesaurs. There is a mechanical reason for this, at least while its actually standing on all fours. Perhaps relaxation of the manus supinates it and you get a characteristic "palms in" while on twos, but at the moment I cannot strong evaluated this. In most quadrupedal animals, the primary axis of the manus follows the most robust metacarpal, largest digit, etc., and we can presume, without tracks, that this is true for silesaurs which should a typical "third is largest" digit with what's preserved. The arm anatomy is very similar to other elongate-limbed animals, such as the running crocs and hadrosaurs, and at the time I simply swapped in the "third is anterior" model from those taxa and plopped it on this near-dinosaur, instead of trying to perform a unique study.
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