| Title: Barbourofelis lovei
Contact: Katura Reynolds
Description: Barbourofelis was a large carnivore from Miocene North America. Though it resembles a saber-toothed cat, it's actually in a group called the nimravids, which is unrelated to modern felines. The painting is based on a cast of the fossil skull and observations of modern zoo animals.
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| Title: Coal Formation
Contact: Cindy Shaw
Description:
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| Title: Butterflies of the Sea
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: Animalocaris descending on a potential
trilobite meal. A priapulid worm emerges
from its tunnel in the right foreground and
two hyolithids forage in the left
foreground.
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| Title: Carbon dating diagram
Contact: Alison Schroeer
Description: This scientific artwork of the carbon dating process was drawn by biological illustrator Alison Schroeer of Schroeer Scientific Illustration.
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| Title: Miacid
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: Miacids, squirrel sized carnivores, similar to modern day pine martens in appearance and behavior, appeared during the Paleocene (55mya). Traditional wash/photoshop image created for the Smithsonian-National Museum of Natural History/Behring Family Hall of Mammals
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| Title: Tylosaurus
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description: Tylosaurus proriger
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| Title: Tyrannosaurus Rex
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description:
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| Title: Florida Pleistocene Marine Habitat Group
Contact: Michael Rothman
Description: This is a underwater coastal scene depicting the fauna and flora of a Florida reef habitat in the late Pleistocene. The Caribbean Monk seal swimming just above the turtle grass has become extinct in recent times. Most of the other species depicted still survive into the present. TO SEE CLOSE UP DETAILS OF THIS PAINTING, PLEASE CLICK ON THE SEQUENTIAL ICONS POSTED ON MY GALLERY PAGE.
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| Title: Dinosaur Dawn
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: New Mexico, 225 million years BPE. Two
Coelophysis in the foreground keep a
watchful eye on Postosuchus. Cover art
for the book, The Deep Time Diaries,
Fulcrum Publishing, 2000.
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| Title: Pseudaelurus hayi
Contact: Katura Reynolds
Description: Pseudaelurus hayi was a Miocene ancestor of modern cats. These fragment of the maxilla and mandible were found in the Barstow Fossil Beds. The length of the canine teeth indicates it was a predator to be contented with!
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| Title: Tiger Subspecies of the World
Contact: Jenny Parks
Description: The different subspecies of tiger lined according to population in the world, from most abundant, to extinct. Bengal tiger Panthera tigris tigris, Indochinese tiger (Corbett’s Tiger) Panthera tigris corbetti, Malayan tiger Panthera tigris jacksoni, Amur tiger (Siberian Tiger) Panthera tigris altaica, Sumatran tiger Panthera tigris sumatrae, South China tiger Panthera tigris amoyensis, Javan tiger Pathera tigris sondaica, Caspian tiger (Persian tiger) Panthera tigris virgata, Balinese tiger Panthera tigris balica.
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| Title: Haast Eagle
Contact: John Megahan
Description: Haast's Eagle, (Harpagornis moorei) is an extinct species of Eagle that lived in New Zealand. Its primary prey item was the moa, a large flightless bird that can weigh as much as 200kg.
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| Title: Florida Pleistocene Marine Habitat left side
Contact: Michael Rothman
Description: This is the Left side detail of the overall mural. A Caribbean Manatee and Goliath Grouper are the largest animals in this underwater coastal scene of a Florida reef habitat in the late Pleistocene era. Both the Manatee and the Grouper are endangered species.
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| Title: A Time for Slime
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: Examples from the Ediacaran fauna of
Australia, 800 million BPE. Dickinsonia
(center foreground) crawls along the
ocean bottom. Just to the left, leaf-like
Charniodiscus is attached to the silt.
Conomediasites resembles a round
throw rug.
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| Title: Permian Extinction
Contact: David Fierstein
Description: Depicts a theory of the causes of a mass extinction in the Permian. Published in Scientific American October 2006. 3D modeling and rendering using World Construction Set and Lightwave 3D.
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| Title: Life History of a Fossil Skeleton
Contact: Gail Guth
Description: Watercolor, colored pencil, and digital illustration of the progression of a skeleton over time. Created for the textbook "Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind", by Craig Stanford, John S. Allen, and Susan C. Anton; published by Prentice Hall. Textbook art developed and managed by Precision Graphics, Inc.
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| Title: Florida Pleistocene Marine Group - right side
Contact: Michael Rothman
Description: This is a right side detail of the mural prepared for the University of Florida Museum of Natural History. This is a underwater coastal scene depicting the fauna and flora of a Florida reef habitat in the late Pleistocene. The Caribbean Monk seal seen swimming just above the turtle grass has become extinct in recent times. The Loggerhead sea turtle (just below the seal), is depicted hunting for mollusks. Most of the other species shown in the image still survive into the present.
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| Title: Eyes in the Forest
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: SW Wyoming, 55 million BPE. Two
lemur-like primates (Notharctus) peer out
of a forest. In the background Diatryma
sizes them up as a potential meal.
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| Title: Detail: "Key Changes In Evolution" Timeline
Contact: Gail Guth
Description: Timeline illustrating key changes in evolution (detail). Created for the textbook "Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind", by Craig Stanford, John S. Allen, and Susan C. Anton; published by Prentice Hall. Textbook art developed and managed by Precision Graphics, Inc.
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| Title: Mosasaur Crushing an Ammonite
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: The platecarpus, a late cretaceous marine lizard, uses its longpointed jaws to crush an ammonite, a relative of the present day, Nautilus. Traditional and digital mediums used. Image created for Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History-Ancient Life Exhibit
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| Title: Jurassic Flood
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: Colorado/Utah, 145 million BPE. An
apatosaur and a stegosaur struggle
against flood waters while an Allosaurus
(top left) gets washed downstream.
Several pterosaurs circle over them
looking for safety in the branches of
evergreens and cycads.
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| Title: Cacao in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Contact: Michael Rothman
Description:
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| Title: Cobbania corrugata and ornithomimus
Contact: Marjorie Leggitt
Description: Photoshop "painting".
Created for paleontology research and proceedings in the American Journal of Botany. Reconstructions "built" from impression fossil material of Late Cretaceous (67-65 mya) water plants and ornithomimus, an ostrich-like dinosaur.
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| Title: Northern Florida Miocene Terrestrial Habitat
Contact: Michael Rothman
Description: This is a Miocene North Central Florida habitat group reconstruction, circa 25 mya. The area depicts the interface of two ecotomes: a grass /pine savannah like that of the present day Kissimee Region and a limestone/sinkhole region analogous to some environs near the Suwannee River. The mural was prepared for the University of Florida Museum of Natural History. TO SEE CLOSE UP DETAILS OF THIS PAINTING, PLEASE CLICK ON THE SEQUENTIAL ICONS POSTED ON MY GALLERY PAGE.
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| Title: Tarpit Rendezvous
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: Southern California, 40,000 years BPE. A
sabre-toothed cat (Smilodon) with a bad
leg looks through the tusks of a
mammoth skull in hopes of spotting an
easy meal. A dead owl lies in the
foreground. A teratorn sours overhead.
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| Title: Archaic Landscape
Contact: Diana Marques
Description: This illustration was commissioned to be included in an important and extensive museum exhibition on the origins of the universe and life as we know it.
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| Title: Miocene Florida Habitat (left side detail)
Contact: Michael Rothman
Description: This is the Left side detail of a Miocene North Central Florida habitat group reconstruction, circa 25 mya. The area depicts the interface of two ecotomes: a grass /pine savannah like that of the present day Kissimee Region and a limestone/sinkhole region analogous to some environs near the Suwannee River. The mural was prepared for the University of Florida Museum of Natural History.
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| Title: Campbell Geology Museum Logo
Contact: John Norton
Description: crystals, trilobite, amethyst
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| Title: Functions of the Hand
Contact: Chris Sanders
Description: Pen & Ink and colored pencil on film
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| Title: Dinosaur Embryo
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: Dinosaur Embryo. Traditional airbrush combined with photoshop. Created for Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History-Ancient Life Exhibit
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| Title: Angry Mamasaur
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: Central Colorado, 68 million years BPE.
An ornithomimid dinosaur
(Ornithomimus) guards her nest from
other hungry predators.
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| Title: Ice Age Land Bridge
Contact: Theophilus Britt Griswold
Description: Ice Age lowered the sea level about 300 feet, revealing a land bridge across the Bering Straits.
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| Title: Amphicyon
Contact: Katura Reynolds
Description: Amphicyon is a “bear-dog,” which fills an evolutionary position between modern bears & dogs. It's grizzly-sized. The preserved trackways suggest it could run down large prey! This was part of a series of reconstructions based on fossils found in the Barstow Fossil Beds.
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| Title: Florida Miocene Habitat (center detail)
Contact: Michael Rothman
Description: This is a Miocene North Central Florida habitat group reconstruction, circa 25 mya. The area depicts the interface of two ecotomes: a grass /pine savannah like that of the present day Kissimee Region and a limestone/sinkhole region analogous to some environs near the Suwannee River. The mural was prepared for the University of Florida Museum of Natural History.
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| Title: lithic scraper
Contact: Chris Sanders
Description:
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| Title: Cretaceous seascape
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: Pterosaurs gather near the Cretaceous
seaway of central North America, 100
million years BPE.
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| Title: Nutcracker Man Eating Fruit
Contact: Nicolle Rager Fuller
Description: The extinct hominid, Nutcracker man Paranthropus boisei, has been thought to eat a diet largely of nuts because of the large jaw. Recent analysis of wear on fossil teeth suggests that when available, Nutcracker man's diet included a lot of soft fruit.
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| Title: Triceratops with ghosted skull
Contact: William Hamilton
Description: Lateral view of the head of a triceratops with ghosted skull.
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| Title: Miocene Florida Habitat (right side detail)
Contact: Michael Rothman
Description: This is a detail of the right side of my Florida Miocene habitat group reconstruction, circa 25 mya. The area depicts the interface of two ecotomes: a grass /pine savannah like that of the present day Kissimee Region and a limestone/sinkhole region analogous to some environs near the Suwannee River. The mural was prepared for the University of Florida Museum of Natural History.
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| Title: snowflakes
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description: T-rex and Triceratops
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| Title: Cretaceous Firestorm
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: Cretaceous Firestorm depicts Pteranodons and various dinosaurs fleeing a fire in forested wetlands in North America caused by debris from the impact of an asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous period.
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| Title: Stegosaurus
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description:
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| Title: Serrated stone point
Contact: Chris Sanders
Description: acrylic on film. One of 5 studies in spiculation series.
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| Title: Ordovician Endings
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: A scene from near the end of the
Ordovician depicting a baculite capturing
the jawless fish, Astraspis. Several
species of trilobites appear in the
foreground, along with a starfish. Several
sea lilies appear in the background.
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| Title: Fossil leaf venation
Contact: Katura Reynolds
Description: These pen & ink drawings show the patterns of veins preserved in fossil leaves. The specimens were preserved in a volcanic ash, and an amazing amount of detail remains in the fossils, especially when drawn under the microscope.
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| Title: Titanosaur Embryo
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description: Titanosaur embryo image created under the direction of Dr. Luis Chiappe.
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| Title: Green Forest
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: Kansas, 295 million years BPE. Seymouria eyes a
giant millipede as potential lunch, looking out from
behind the stump of a lycopod tree.
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| Title: Amphibian Extinctions
Contact: Rachel Ivanyi
Description: This illustration shows frogs that are presumed extinct from around the world. It was done for the National Geographic Magazine May 2001 feature, The Fragile World of Frogs. The frogs shown are Atelopus cruciger, Eleutherodactylus jasperi, Bufo
periglenes, Rheobatrachus silus, Litoria nyakalensis, Discoglossus nigriventer and Rana fisheri.
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| Title: Gompotherium
Contact: Katura Reynolds
Description: Gompotherium is an ancestor of the modern elephant that lived in the Miocene. It had 4 tusks and stood about 10 feet high. This scratchboard illustration was part of a project documenting fossil mammals from the Barstow Fossil Beds.
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| Title: Agriotherium Attacking a Sivatherium
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: Up to 5 million years ago, the agriotherium, a huge long legged bear, hunted ancient giraffe (sivatherium) in southwest Africa. Traditional wash w/photoshop, created for the Smithsonian- National Museum of Natural History/Behring Family Hall of Mammals.
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| Title: Tylosaurus mosasaur with Water
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description:
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| Title: Eocene Eden
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: A Diatrema visits the shore of Early Eocene-age Lake Uinta in Colorado. A startled Hyracotherium in the foreground bounds over a log. Macginitiea (sycamore), Populus (poplar), and Sabalites (palm) comprise the surrounding forest.
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| Title: Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Contact: Theophilus Britt Griswold
Description: The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher is a species that is dependent on suitable habitat in both North and South America. This makes it vulnerable to extincton by habitat pressures from either continent.
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| Title: Paramylodon
Contact: Katura Reynolds
Description: Paramylodon harlanii, or Harlan's Ground Sloth, was a massive herbivore that appeared around the Oligocene. This drawing, produced for an exhibit at the San Bernardino County Museum, focuses on some of the interesting adaptations that are evident from the structure of the skeleton.
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| Title: Hunting Mosasaurs
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description: Hunting Mosasaurs with Ammonoidea
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| Title: Oligocene Dirk-toothed Cat
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: Dinictis felina (Leidy), sometimes called a false saber-toothed cat, lived during the Oligocene in South Dakota.
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| Title: Attack!
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: A Chasmosaurus uses its massive frill and horns to defend itself against a Daspletosaurus in the Late Cretaceous. Watercolor/airbrush illustration created for Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History-Ancient Life Exhbit.
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| Title: Protoepicyon
Contact: Katura Reynolds
Description: Protoepicyon was a carnivore that lurked around the Barstow Fossil Beds during the Miocene epoch. Though it looks dog-like, it belongs in the extinct subfamily Borophaginae rather than the modern Canidae. The animal's short muzzle suggests it had a similar lifestyle to the modern hyena.
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| Title: Pu'u kukui habitat group (right side detail)
Contact: Michael Rothman
Description: This is a detail from the right side of my painting depicting the endangered native montane bog habitat found in the Pu'u kukui reserve on Maui. Characteristic endemic flora include Lobelia gloria-montis (Campanulaceae); two species of Silver sword, Argyroxiphium grayanum and Argyroxiphium caliginis (Asteraceae); and Labordia hedyosmifolia (Loganiaceae). The recently extinct Hawaiian honeycreeper, Bishop’s O’o (Meliphagidae) and the threatened Kamehameha butterfly (Vanessa tameamea) (Nymphalidae) represent some of the fauna.
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| Title: Smilodectes
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: Extinct tree dwelling primate common in North America during the Eocene (53 mya). Traditional wash/photoshop image created for the Smithsonian- National Museum of Natural History/Behring Family Hall of Mammals.
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| Title: Parasaurolophus
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: The hadrosaur, Parasaurolophus, shared her Cretaceous environment with some of the first flowers, relatives of modern magnolias, and their insect pollinators.
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| Title: Reconstruction of Homo floresiensis
Contact: Mieke Roth
Description: In 2005 I did a reconstruction of Homo floresiensis with the assumption that it (sometimes) walked on all fours. In the years between a lot of research has been done on Homo floresiensis and more features are known. This reconstruction is according to the latest findings.
Homo floresiensis is more sturdy than a human, with a wide ribcage and heavy bones. Remarkably, Homo floresiensis has large feet not unlike Tolkien's hobbits, the length of the foot was 70% of the femur and the anatomy was similar to modern humans, but he had very primitive hands, more like that of great apes or Australopithecus. The shoulder blades and the upper arm bone are also more primitive and the shoulders are wider and more rounded due to that. That makes Homo floresiensis look more muscular than it really is.
Homo floresiensis has large eyes and almost no nose bridge, making the nose looking more like that of apes than of a modern human.
I adjusted the musculature according to the weight and length of the bones. Since the pelvic bones are comparable with that of modern humans I gave him a behind that looks more human like instead of looking like that of an great ape.
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| Title: Mastodont (Mammut americanum)
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: Mastodonts possessed large upward-curving tusks, and browsed in wooded areas in the Late Miocene. Watercolor image created for Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History-Ancient Life Exhibit
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| Title: Scaphohippus, a three-toed horse
Contact: Katura Reynolds
Description: This three-toed horse was an ancestor to modern horses. It was only about 3 feet high at the shoulder, and its "extra" toes didn't actually touch the ground. Scaphohippus was a common herbivore in the Barstow Fossil Beds area.
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