Very glad that the effort was worth it, Thank You 😁

Some photos of the painting process.

P.S., if you like to read more, please also check out the paper by Aaron Ebner:

"First hadrosauroid record from Petreşti-Arini (Transylvanian Basin, Romania; Upper Cretaceous) and its implications for the evolution of the Hațeg Island vertebrate faunas"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

my colleague Aaron Ebner for his help and discussions and particularly Dr. Felix Augustin for guiding me throughout this whole project and for offering me this opportunity.

This would not have been possible without You.

If you are interessed in this topic, please check out the full, open access publication: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I want to thank my co-authors, Prof. Zoltán Csiki-Sava for allowing me to work on the material, hosting us in Bukarest and all his work and time going into this paper, ...

Lastly, while struthiosaurid ankylosaurs are also known from the latest Cretaceous of the western Late Cretaceous European Archipelago (i.e. Ibero-Armorica), there they disappear at the 'Mid'-Maastrichtian Dinosaur Turnover, showing that Haţeg Island fauna evolved unaffected by this change.

that ankylosaurs first show up in the fossil record of the Transylvanian Basin and only later in the Haţeg Basin.
This observation is also found, but with new stratigraphic ranges:

TB: latest Campanian to 'mid' Maastrichtian
HB: earliest Maastrichtian to late Maastrichtian.

abundance, leading us to theorize that the scarcity of ankylosaur remains results from a low original faunal abundance of these dinosaurs.

The new scapula is also the first evidence of ankylours from the 'Pui Beds' of the eastern part of the Haţeg Basin.

Furthermore, it's been reported before ...

which has lead to theories that they lived environmentally seggregated and/or outside the typically preserved fluvial-floodplain environments of the Haţeg and Transylvanian basins.

However, ankylosaurs are now known from most important sites of both basins and with almost uniformly low ...

We also provide a new and expanded overview of the Transylvanian ankylosaur record, particularly looking at their enviromental and stratigraphic distribution.

Ankyloaurs remains are a scarce among the remains of herbivorous dinosaurs (rhabdodontids, titanosaurs, hadrosauroids) on Haţeg Island ...

To provide a brief summary: We described a new ankylosaurian scapula from the Maastrichtian 'Pui Beds' of the famous Haţeg Basin, Romania.

And based on thorough morphological comparisons - with a high degree of similarities to Struthiosaurus transylvanicus - assign it to Struthiosaurus sp.

Honestly me neither, I only knew about it because of a palaeontologist I'm working with. We both submitted abstracts for the general congress, but that's how he knew and he suggested I'd enter the PaleoArt Contest as well.

Please do, I think it could do with more attention and thank You 😁

past to create a lithological profile and place it in the stratigraphy.

Lately however, I was lucky and spotted a small, eroded bone in the wall that I went to collect today. Turns out, there is more to it, and the "rib-like" element extended into the rock, so I still have pieces left to get out.

Thank you so much 😊
I gotta agree, there is something really aesthetic about this particular species.