KT☄️

BSc | MSc | croc paleontologist | archosaurs! 🐊 🦖🦜 | she/her | DM/email [email protected] for art commissions!

[KT☄️ @Crocodontist]

Commissions available! Help out a paleo student, get some artwork for sci comm, figures, or just to have something nice!
I am most experienced with archosaurs but willing to illustrate a variety of subjects/topics.

Prices and styles negotiable.

DM or email [email protected]

[Hodari Shadowalker ❄️🐆 @HodariNundu]

A commission I did for @Permianhero that was a lot of fun! Inspired by the Hell Creek mosasaur described months ago from a fossilized tooth similar to Prognathodon- one of the scarier mosasaurs if you ask me. Could these guys breach great-white shark style? I don´t doubt it tbh

[Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology @JVP_vertpaleo]

🚨New Pub!🚨The ontogenetically youngest known pachycephalosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) postcranium👶🦴by Moore et al.

https://t.co/19tIidFLhs

[KT☄️ @Crocodontist]

Tiny little pachycephalosaur! From Saskatchewan! Without a doubt, the most fun I had with a paleoart illustration (can you spot the champsosaur?)

[Jordan Mallon @Jordan_Mallon]

Here's a fun project that I'm proud to announce: a description of a baby dome-headed dino skeleton! It's partial and lacks a skull, but it's diagnostic all the same. Kudos to MSc student Bryan Moore for pushing this through:
https://t.co/kjxzpX9hvV
Art: @Crocodontist #CMNPalaeo

[Jordan Mallon @Jordan_Mallon]

Here's a fun project that I'm proud to announce: a description of a baby dome-headed dino skeleton! It's partial and lacks a skull, but it's diagnostic all the same. Kudos to MSc student Bryan Moore for pushing this through:
https://t.co/kjxzpX9hvV
Art: @Crocodontist #CMNPalaeo

[KT☄️ @Crocodontist]

Happy new year y’all!
I am about to delve into a PhD in 2026 (palynology of all things!) but I ain’t done with crocodylians by a long shot. I have two related papers in the works for the new year, I think they’re pretty cool, so watch this space! Peace, love, and fossils.

[KT☄️ @Crocodontist]

An aurora witnessed in the time following the Age of Dinosaurs. Featuring Borealosuchus (zero surprise to anyone that knows me) after a specimen I am writing up on from Estevan, SK
Companion timelapse video on my instagram!

[sauroarchive @igoralves_07]

Studies and life reconstruction of the alligatoroid Leidyosuchus canadensis that I did for a commission

Big thanks to @necrowow2 and @mmujicam2000 for the helpful notes and advice on it!

#paleoart #leidyosuchus #sciart

[BBC Earth @BBCEarth]

The world of dinosaurs brought to life like never before 🦖🦕

As bones emerge from the ground, Walking with Dinosaurs will use cutting-edge science and state-of-the-art visual effects to tell the gripping stories of these magnificent creatures.

#Dinosaurs #BBCEarth #BBC #WalkingWithDinosaurs

[KT☄️ @Crocodontist]

I have discovered cross stitch this past month. Poking fabric and my fingers is great therapy.

[KT☄️ @Crocodontist]

Well then, every Borealosuchus I've studied is a pipsqueak by comparison! Maybe one day I'll find a Maastrichtian/Danian specimen this large. I want to believe…

[Armin Reindl @ArminReindl]

so I was scaling some specimen of Borealosuchus wilsoni for @JoschuaKnuppe and in the process found TATE 2070, a specimen of B. sp. with an estimated skull length of ~70cm. Using that estimate and FMNH PR 1674 as a proxy, this would give an animal roughly this size:

[Armin Reindl @ArminReindl]

so I was scaling some specimen of Borealosuchus wilsoni for @JoschuaKnuppe and in the process found TATE 2070, a specimen of B. sp. with an estimated skull length of ~70cm. Using that estimate and FMNH PR 1674 as a proxy, this would give an animal roughly this size:

[KT☄️ @Crocodontist]

@skeletaldrawing @IzaRajaGandi Would love to see a deep dive paleopath study, because man, Scotty had real rough go of it. IIRC there’s an in-grown maxillary tooth socket, some puckering on the skull that might (?) be attributed to infection/disease. The skull sutures are also abnormal supposedly.

[KT☄️ @Crocodontist]

@ARTheropodfan @skeletaldrawing Based on when I worked at the RSKM,
we cited Scotty as being ~60% complete. I can’t remember the exact metric that is based on though

[KT☄️ @Crocodontist]

Almost missed this— I made this art for this paper!

[Scott Hartman @skeletaldrawing]

As requested: A comparison of (some) Tyrannosaurus specimens. Peck's Rex is not included, pending an update. Specimens like Trix, Tristan and Samson are all eminently restorable, I just don't have infinite free time to do tyrannosaur skeletals. Enjoy!

[KT☄️ @Crocodontist]

@Titanlizard_Art Scotty’s skull is also really, really— fugly and quite asymmetrical, so it’s hard not to end up a reconstruction that doesn’t look off-brand. Still a T. rex, but man, bit of an ugly duckling.

[KT☄️ @Crocodontist]

@Titanlizard_Art Hi! I’ve worked at the museum that houses Scotty: this skull looks based on the old recon made before all the skull bones (found disarticulated) were prepped. The new reconstruction (pictured here) looks a bit more in line with other T. rex!

[KT☄️ @Crocodontist]

@skeletaldrawing Oh yeah, they are even more weirdly proportioned and just— messed up looking in-person. I haven’t been satisfied with any reconstruction I made even after seeing it many times.

[KT☄️ @Crocodontist]

Been sitting on this for a bit: Scottys’ skull looks based on the old recon (left) made before all the skull material was prepped, rather that the new one (right) after prep finished—which looked more in line with other T. rex. Also, its skull was found disarticulated.

[Scott Hartman @skeletaldrawing]

As requested: A comparison of (some) Tyrannosaurus specimens. Peck's Rex is not included, pending an update. Specimens like Trix, Tristan and Samson are all eminently restorable, I just don't have infinite free time to do tyrannosaur skeletals. Enjoy!

[KT☄️ @Crocodontist]

To add: pretty exploded. We have most of the skull bones, but they aren’t all complete (and then there’s warping/deformation to watch out for). Definitely wiggle room for recon, and Scotty does have a weird skull, but some aspects may be a touch exaggerated IMO.