Acrylic Astrodon

This was made to test a few different things, including putting my skills with acrylic paints to the test.

Long story short; I'll need to revisit them.

Another thing is the very own state fossil of Maryland, Astrodon! Known from the lower Cretaceous of North America, some 112 million years ago, this beast was one of the last of the classic sauropods, being a close relative of the brachiosaurs. It wouldn't be long before the bulkier Titanosaurs became the dominant giant herbivores, but at 30 feet or so at the shoulder, A. johnstoni was still an impressive sight on its own merits. Only the largest of carnivores at the time would have dared rival it, pulling supercarnivores like Utahraptor and Acrocanthosaurus into the scene at alarming rates. The Cretaceous would become an unprecedented span of biodiversity, and habitats like the ones these animals lived in kicked it all off with a bang.

Rendered in Acrylic. Scanned in Google Photoscan