Spec: Artwork

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

This is a page dedicated to showing off the older and unused concept art that never made it into the final Speculative Dinosaur Project. While some of the art has been recovered and placed back on to this website, some of it was placed in the wrong pages by accident. The goal of this page is to help clear up things and show off the amazing artwork of Spec. However, some art might be used for the restoration of Spec. I also apologize for the mistakes that I have made in the past, I just hope putting all of the artwork here will set things right. Assistance would be much appreciated. Thank you and don't forget to contribute.

Note: I am NOT any of these artists.

DAVID NAMEN'S ARTWORK[]

Pisciraptor nauticus by David Namen[]

Pisciraptor nauticus was a medium sized spinosaur from Northern Africa, probably one of the last. Although remains are scant, it is believed to be very similar to earlier Spinosaurs. Fish bones found near its stomach cavity suggest it was also a piscivore. It is unknown why these large theropods disappeared so early in the fossil record. Perhaps they became too specialized, and were driven out by the Priscataurs.

Duckgong Concept by David Namen[]

Arch nose duckgong — Original Artist: David Namen

Ocelotar 2.0 by David Namen[]

Mountain Horn Sketches by David Namen[]

Aquatitan by David Namen[]

Concept for the Aquatitan boothi.

Unused Noasaur Concept Art by David Namen[]

Concept art for noasaurs that never made into the final project.

Mountain Horn (Cryoceratops montanus) by Daniel Bensen[]

Sdcera3-s — Original Artist: Daniel Bensen

Undescribed Species of Spinosaur []

Concept artwork for an undescribed species of extinct spinosaur. Notice the fused foot and hand claws. This piece of unused concept art might be used for an extinct species of spinosaur.

Original Deseado Dancer (Compsotyrannus rancori)[]

The deseado dancer (Compsotyrannus rancori) is medium sized tyrannosaur and rather large for south American standards. During the dry season, they molt, loosing all but the feathers. These agile dinosaurs live in small pockets across southern South America. The geographic and behavioral restrictions placed by the Andes mountains and constant threat from deinonychosaurs separates Compsotyrannus into two species. The more common of the two, C. rancori often engage in complex mating dances, using leaps, head bobbing, and skips. Hence the name dancer.

Original Verminator Artwork[]

DANIEL BENSEN'S ARTWORK[]

Under Construction

Original Hmungo Artwork by Daniel Bensen[]

Original artwork for the Greater Hmungo (Megahadrus titanus) by Daniel Bensen, note the sexual dimorphism between the two species and the Hmungo-Swoops as well.

Grassbag Concept Art[]

Grassbag v — Original Artwork: Daniel Bensen

The only noticeable differences being the design of the grassbag and its name, Neotitanosaurus dodgsoni.

The 20 meter-long, 12-tonne bandersnatch grass-bag (Neotitanosaurus dodgsoni) is the almost the largest land animal on the Specworld, second only to the related great grass-bag. They range across southern and eastern Africa, but are most common on the Serengeti plain, where they congregate with many other grazers. These enormous titanosaurs are actually rather lazy creatures, standing in a single spot and swinging their long necks through their arc of movement, cropping all the vegetation they come across. Evidence of grass-bag grazing, in the form of rows of concentric arcs of cropped grass, are common on the African savanna.

Bandersnatches are rather more social than the larger great grass-bags, collecting into pods of six to ten adults, mostly female. Bulls, which are more lightly built than cows, are generally solitary, though it is not unknown for a single aged male to join his favorite pod and care for his children along with his consorts. Adults of sexes exhibit the striking blue and black-striped head, though in the males, the blue extends further down the neck.

A grass-bag's dentition exists solely as a row of thin, flat teeth at the front of the lower mandible, paralleling the grass-cropping mechanism of Home-Earth's ungulates. Unlike those mammalian herbivores, however, grass-bags lack molars and do not chew their food. Instead, they pass the grass directly into their enormous crops, where rocks the size of a man's fist grind the high-silicate plant material into an easily digestible paste. This method of digestion is strictly dinosaurian, and is shared across the clade.

METTE AUMALA'S ARTWORK[]

Note: Concept artwork that doesn't have the words "CONCEPT SKETCH" in the background shouldn't be posted here. Artwork that does have those words "CONCEPT SKETCH" on them are to be moved here.

Horned Euroloph[]

Crownloph — Original Artist: Matti Aumala

Ceratopsian[]

Dcsketch — Original Artist: Matti Aumala

Interestingly enough, a proposed name for this creature was originally named Xenoceratops oplos, not be confused with the centrosaur discovered in 2012.