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The Life of a Prehistoric Animal is a work-in-progress art project focused on the life of nine different species of prehistoric animals, depicted in a comicbook or storyboard format. The depiction of each creature, as well as the environment they lived in, and their lifestyle is meant to be reconstructed as accurately as possible, while giving credit to healthy speculation on the prehistoric world.

We will go back over 180 million years into the past, and progressively move towards the present. In the meantime, we will see how giant reptiles started out small during the Jurassic period, witness the unforgiving life of small dinosaurs during the Cretaceous period, and observe how Cenozoic mammals reproduce and take care of their young, before they meet their ultimate end.

In an effort to constantly battle the impending threat of extinction, each of these protagonists will be birthed into an alien world and we will accompany them in their struggles as they grow towards adulthood, see them breed and ultimately meet their final days as formidable creatures of our Earth's past.

Let us be welcomed to the life of a prehistoric animal.

The following list shows what animals will be covered, in what order. Some of these details could be prone to be changed in face of potentially challenging scientific data:

180 million years ago, Toarcian - Early Jurassic

 Germany, Posidonia Shale

Temnodontosaurus trigonodon

Classification: Ichthyosauria, Archosauromorpha, Archelosauria, Diapsida

151 million years ago, middle-late Kimmeridgian - Late Jurassic

Wyoming, USA, Morrison Formation

Elosaurus parvus

Classification: Apatosaurinae, Diplodocidae, Sauropoda, Saurischia, Dinosauria, Archosauria, Archosauromorpha, Dipasida

149.5 million years ago, late Kimmeridigian - Late Jurassic

Colorado, USA, Morrison Formation

Amphicoelias altus

Classification: Diplodocidae, Sauropoda, Saurischia, Dinosauria, Archosauria, Archosauromorpha, Archelosauria, Diapsida

c.108 million years ago, Aptian-Albian - Early Cretaceous

Wyoming, USA, Cloverly Formation

Deinonychus antirrhopus

Classification: Dromaeosauridae, Paraves, Pennaraptora, Theropoda, Saurischia, Dinosauria, Archosauria, Diapsida

c.72 million years ago, Campanian - Late Cretaceous

Mongolia, Djadokhta Formation

Protoceratops andrewsi

Classification: Ceratopsia, Ornithischia, Dinosauria, Archosauria, Archosauromorpha, Archelosauria, Diapsida

66 million years ago, Maastrichtian - Late Cretaceous

South Dakota, USA, Hell Creek Formation

Anzu wyliei

Classification: Oviraptorosauria, Pennaraptora, Theropoda, Dinosauria, Archosauria, Archosauromorpha, Archelosauria, Diapsida

c.47.8 million years ago, Lutetian - Eocene

Germany, Messel Formation

Leptictidium tobieni

Classification: Leptictida, Eutheria, Theria, Mammalia

c.35 million years ago, Priabonian - Eocene

East Coast of USA

Basilosaurus cetoides

Classification: Basilosauridae, Cetacea, Whippomorpha, Cetancodontamorpha, Cetruminantia, Artiofabula, Artiodactyla, Mammalia

c.20 million years ago, Miocene

Nebraska, USA, Agate Fossil Beds

Daeodon shoshonensis

Classification: Entelodontidae, Cetancodontamorpha, Cetruminantia, Artiofabula, Artiodactyla, Ungulata, Ferungulata, Mammalia

More information will come soon...