Dinoart Mugs

A repaint of an old paleoart piece with a more modern depiction of the dinosaurs. The original painting of these Corythosaurus is by Zdenek Burian and was made in1956! This is my 2022 take on it :)

This is an illustration of a therizinosaurus.

A cartoon skeleton from a Pliosaurus

First described in 1877 at the height of the “Bone Wars” by Othneil Charles Marsh, Allosaurus was one of the most successful and wide spread predators of the Late Jurassic Period (approximately 155-150 million years ago) with most of it’s remains being found the Morrison Formation in Western North America and related specimens having been found as far away as Portugal, and possibly as far off as Tanzania. Allosaurus was named from the Greek for “different lizard” because of a trait found in the central parts of it’s vertebrae which had a concave cup-like shape on the back end of it’s surface.

Outdated reconstruction of Pterodactylus, a small pterosaur from the Late Jurassic period.

Brontosaurus excelsus, my favorite dinosaur when I was a child.

Pteranodon, from the DinoZoo series on genetically engineered dinosaur-like creatures roaming a fictional theme park in the near future. Unlike most of the creatures featured in the DinoZoo series, Pteranodon is not really a dinosaur, but a pterosaur. Pterosaurs were a group of flying reptiles closely related to dinosaurs that shared the world of the Mesozoic with them.

Discovered in 1903 by paleontologist Elmer S. Riggs in the Colorado River Valley, Brachiosaurus (it’s name meaning “Arm Lizard” because of it’s proportionately longer front limbs) roamed what would become North America during the Late Jurassic about 154 to 153 million years ago. With a length in the upper estimates of 69 feet and a possible 64 tons in weight it was a large animal, though it was not by far the largest the clade of sauropods would get.

Ankylosaurus, one of the last dinosaurs. It's also the most famous and possibly the largest of the armored dinosaurs.

Spinosaurus, from the DinoZoo series on genetically engineered dinosaur-like creatures roaming a fictional theme park in the near future.

Bring some prehistoric style to your wardrobe with this fierce Carnotaurus design! This fierce predator roamed the earth during the Late Cretaceous period and now you can show off your love for this fierce dinosaur with this unique design. Perfect for any dino lover, this design is available on a variety of products including t-shirts, hoodies, phone cases, and more. Made with high-quality materials and vibrant colors, this design is sure to make a statement wherever you go. Order yours today and show off your love for the mighty Carnotaurus!

Raptor, from the DinoZoo series on genetically engineered dinosaur-like creatures roaming a fictional theme park in the near future.

Triceratops, from the DinoZoo series on genetically engineered dinosaur-like creatures roaming a fictional theme park in the near future.

Elasmosaurus, from the DinoZoo series on genetically engineered dinosaur-like creatures roaming a fictional theme park in the near future. Unlike most of the creatures featured in the DinoZoo series, Elasmosaurus is not a dinosaur at all, but a plesiosaur. Plesiosaurs were a group of marine reptiles NOT particularly related to dinosaurs that shared the world of the Mesozoic with them.

Centrosaurus, a horned dinosaur and a relative of the more famous Triceratops.

T.rex was a massive animal, measuring around 40 feet in length and roughly 12 feet in height, weighing in at around 6 to 9 tons. It had teeth as big or bigger than most bananas with a bite force equal to around 8,000 lbs of force. When it bit into it’s prey it would often crush bone. Though it had relatively small arms for it’s stature, scientists have estimated that each arm was capable of 3.5 times the strength of a human arm of the same length, they were heavily muscled and had a limited range of movement, which some think may have aided the animal in holding on to prey or during mating.

Iguanodon bernissartensis was a roughly 3 ton herbivorous dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (126-125 million years ago). Initially discovered in England, Iguanodon was one of the first dinosaurs identified by science it’s remains have been found across Europe, North America, and Africa. Iguanodon’s most defining feature a pair of spike-like claws on it’s front limbs, roughly where the thumb would be on a human hand. When this was originally found it was thought to be a horn and early reconstructions, such as those at the Crystal Palace Park in London were based on very incomplete fossils, portraying the animal as a giant slow, moving lizard with a horn on the tip of it’s nose.

Styracosaurus (or “spiked lizard”) was a member of the ceretopsian family of dinosaurs. Though somewhat smaller than it’s much more famous relative Triceratops, it made up for it’s lack of size in the number of horns it had covering it’s face with one long central horn jutting from it’s nose and at least 4 or more long frill spines protruding from the crest on the back of it’s skull. The spines most likely had a variety of purposes, from defense, to attracting a mate, to species recognition. Styracosaurus was a hervivore and lived during the Late Cretaceous period, roughly 75.5 to 75 million years ago, in what would eventually become North America ranging from Alberta, Canada to what would eventually be Montana in the United States.

With a skull 10 inches thick surrounded by rounded spikes it’s thought that Pachycephalosaurs used its bulbous dome as a weapon against predators and rivals, much like modern bighorn sheep. There is evidence for and against this, damage to a fossil skull fragment suggests trauma was inflicted directly at the top of the skull, but structural analysis seems to rule out skull to skull bash-fests as it looks like solid bone didn’t cushion against damage as well as you might think. Bighorn sheep can headbutt each other like they do because their horns are actually hollow providing an air cushion for it’s brain, helping to prevent concussions.

Miss Dinosaur

Diamond Raptor

Yi qi (pronounced yee chee, and meaning essentially “Strange Wing”). This pint-sized dinosaur was only about 380 grams in weight and was about the size of your average pigeon. Of course you would definitely notice a pigeon with wings like this little fella had. What makes Yi so interesting is what those wings were made of. Most dinosaurian wings were made of feathers just like you see today, Yi qi had wings that were made of leather-like skin membranes spread between it’s second and third fingers, with an extra bony strut protruding from the back of it’s wrist. While this configuration looks like that of a bat, the animals are not related except in the most distant way possible.

Parasaurolophus, from the DinoZoo series on genetically engineered dinosaur-like creatures roaming a fictional theme park in the near future.

Brachiosaurus, from the DinoZoo series on genetically engineered dinosaur-like creatures roaming a fictional theme park in the near future.

Creature mash-up, from the DinoZoo series on genetically engineered dinosaur-like creatures roaming a fictional theme park in the near future.

I present Amargasaurus cazaui, (meaning “La Amarga lizard”) a sauropod that roamed in what is now Argentina during the Early Cretaceous period, about 129.4 to 122.46 million years ago. Though it was not the larges sauropod in environment, or it’s genera within the overall family (Dicraeosauridae), it was definitely one of the weirdest dinosaurs ever discovered. Amargasaurus distinguished itself from other Sauropods by sporting 2 rows of bony spines that ran along it’s neck, scientists have speculated as to the purpose of this adaptation by proposing everything from them supporting body heat regulating sails, being percussive instruments, a means of defense, and a way to attract mates and recognize their species.

Around 66 million years ago, in Late Cretaceous South Dakota, an odd bird-like creature darted it’s way through the thick overgrowth of a humid, swampy, coastal plain near the coast of an inland sea that only only exists now in the form of trace elements of chemical signatures, rock strata, and the fossil remains of the animals that lived and died on its shores and below its waves.

Final for Carnotaurus sastrei. A farely large predatory dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (72 – 69.9 million years ago), it is mostly defined by it’s short bulldog like skull sporting 2 large horns mounted on it’s brow just above the eyes. The bull-like placement of the horns were not lost on the scientist who discovered it, José Bonaparte, deriving it’s name from the Latin words meaning “meat-eating bull.”

Dilophosaurus, from the DinoZoo series on genetically engineered dinosaur-like creatures roaming a fictional theme park in the near future.

Triceratops horridus was a Late Cretaceous (68 – 66 million years ago) herbivore, the first of the horned ceratopsian dinosaurs to be discovered. It’s remains were originally found by Othniel Charles Marsh, in the spring of 1887. though he thought that the fossil cores that fit the animal’s brow belonged to a species of extinct Pliocene Bison. It wasn’t until 1889 that he realized his error and named the species Triceratops, meaning “Three Horned Face.” A fully grown Triceratops measured around 30 feet in length, weighing in at roughly 5.5 tons, It’s head made up around 5 feet of it’s total length with 3 feet of horns attached above each eye.

Roughly 153 to 148 million years ago a vicious predator stalked the sun bleached grasslands and loosely populated conifer forests of Late Jurassic Colorado. As a mid-sized predator, measuring in at around 23 feet in length, with a weight estimated between 1500 and 2100 pounds, it would have been formidable hunter, most likely preying on whatever herbivorous fauna that it could sink its teeth into.

Megalosaurus lived 166 million years ago during the Middle Jurassic period, its remains were first described by science in 1699 but it were misattributed as being those of a fish, it would later become the first animal to be placed under the group, Dinosauria. It was about 30 feet in length and weighed between 2,200 and 6,600 lbs.

Carnotaurus, the horned predatory dinosaur from Late Cretaceous Argentina.

Struthiomimus, one of the ostrich-like dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period.

A cartoon skeleton from a Liopleurodon

Bring some prehistoric style to your wardrobe with this fierce Carnotaurus design! This fierce predator roamed the earth during the Late Cretaceous period and now you can show off your love for this fierce dinosaur with this unique design. Perfect for any dino lover, this design is available on a variety of products including t-shirts, hoodies, phone cases, and more. Made with high-quality materials and vibrant colors, this design is sure to make a statement wherever you go. Order yours today and show off your love for the mighty Carnotaurus!