Love how these things evolved quadrupedality but totally backwards, they're using their "arm" fins as back legs and their "leg" fins as front legs, great spec material.
Not disagreeing, their head threw me off quite a bit as I worked on them, but it just strikes me as funny that baleen whales are quite normalized to us being modern and all but they are so much more mind-blowing to me than this guy if I take a step back.
🌍 -EARTH, 253 MILLION YEARS IN THE FUTURE-
A new Pangea has formed. Somewhere in the Global Ocean surrounding it, an enormous descendant of Ratfishes is seen being chased away by a pack of derived water skaters. #PangeaProxima
This is based on a very quick reconstruction I made based on the new paper, which suggests a kind of "pseudonares" enveloped entirely by the premaxilla. Reconstructing this area can still achieve the more conventional appearance.
I would have gone with them largely being whale carcass eaters like the California Condor since that's one of the possible explanations for why the Condor survived while the Teratorns went extinct. But with the dragons being active predators hunting bison is probably sufficient.
Ignoring the ominous countdown of the past few days, the two types of terrestrial telmatozooans. There is Arthrata, which often specializes in niches where speed is beneficial, such as predation or arboreality. Then Pyrgata is better in large niches, as they are like uh stable.