[x]

Browse More Like This

More from ~bensen-daniel

View Gallery · View Prints

Featured in Groups:

Not currently featured in any groups.

Details

Submitted: April 11, 2012
Image Size: 45.0 KB
Resolution: 572×2436

Link

Thumb

Statistics

Comments: 11
Favourites: 15 [who?]
Views: 539 (0 today)
Downloads: 11 (0 today)

License

Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

[x]

Some Hell Creek Megafloraby ~bensen-daniel

Traditional Art / Drawings / Illustration / Conceptual

All right!
This is pretty preliminary and these things are not to scale BUT, here are some of the megaflora of Hell Creek (Maastrichtian montana)

From top to bottom we have:

Liriodendrites bradacii: A magnolia

Marmarthia trivialis: A laurel

Marmarthia pearsoni: A laurel

Platanites marginata: A sycamore or plane-tree

Bisonia niemii: possibly another laurel

Erlingdorfia montana: Another sycamore

Leepiesceia presrtocarpoides: another laurel

This list omits the most common taxon: "Dryophyllum" subfalcatum, which I can't find any pictures for

Done while listening to: Harii Pottaa to Kenja no Ishi

References: [link] and [link]

~Hyrotrioskjan May 10, 2012 Professional General Artist

Very helpfull to reconstruct this ecosystem, this deserve a fave

~bensen-daniel May 10, 2012

Thank you

~yoult May 5, 2012 Professional General Artist

Great! I hope you won't mind if I oneday will use your research-results as reference. You don't see mesozoic plant-reconstructions that often.
As I said, great work and thank you for the effort you took in it.

~bensen-daniel May 5, 2012

I didn't really do anything additional to the papers I found (and linked in the description), but thanks. And please use this stuff---that's why I made it.

~Baurusuchus Apr 23, 2012

Really great stuff, plenty of laurels in Hell Creek eh?

~bensen-daniel Apr 23, 2012

Yeah, it seems so. Of course, it may be that paleobotanists are just calling these things "laurels." After all, all they have to go on is leaf-impressions, without any information about stems or flowers or anything.

~electreel Apr 13, 2012

Interesting piece! Good to see some darn-weird laurels

~bensen-daniel Apr 16, 2012

That leaf shapes are as real as I could make them, but the arrangement on the branch comes entirely from the air. If you have better ideas for good laurel branch-shapes, let me know.

~electreel Apr 21, 2012

Those branch shapes are good enough, don´t worry

~pilsator Apr 12, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Wonderful, Dan!

More from ~bensen-daniel

Featured in Groups:

Details

Statistics

License

Some Hell Creek Megafloraby ~bensen-daniel

The Journal Portal

Polls

What is your preferred drawing software?

deviantART [dee·vee·un'nt·ART]

Keep in Touch!

Deviousness

Add Media

Style