published stuff

Here you can see some images used for any public request. Some are explicit orders, some used by permit. Scientific stuff that has been published is listed at the previous page.

*Stenopelix*

Stenopelix - digital art

Stenopelix

a basal ceratopsian from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany

Natural History Museum Kassel

© 2015 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Antarctic flora

Antarctic flora - oil painting

Antarctic flora

Reconstruction of Antarctic Petriellales plants from the Lower Triassic, with male and female maquettes

Benjamin Bomfleur, Anne-Laure Decombeix, Andrew B. Schwendemann, Ignacio H. Escapa, Edith L. Taylor, Thomas N. Taylor, Stephen McLoughlin (2014): Habit and Ecology of the Petriellales, an Unusual Group of Seed Plants from the Triassic of Gondwana. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 175(9): 1062-1075.

www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/678087

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

The giants' league: the human scale bar

The giants' league: the human scale bar - oil painting

The giants' league: the human scale bar

large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

The giants' league: land mammals

The giants' league: land mammals - oil painting

The giants' league: land mammals

Paraceratherium /"Indricotherium" and African elephant Loxodonta africana

large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

The giants' league: swamp monsters

The giants' league: swamp monsters - oil painting

The giants' league: swamp monsters

the archegosaurid temnospondlye Prionosuchus plummeri, the "super-croc" Sarcosuchus imperator, and the myriapod Arthropleura armata

large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

The giants' league: fisherman's end

The giants' league: fisherman's end - oil painting

The giants' league: fisherman's end

the shark Carcharodon megalodon and the bony fish Leedsichthys problematicus

large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

The giants' league: big face

The giants' league: big face - oil painting

The giants' league: big face

Triceratops horridus

large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

The giants' league: fluffy killer

The giants' league: fluffy killer - oil painting

The giants' league: fluffy killer

Tyrannosaurus rex

large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

The giants' league: Mesozoic stock

The giants' league: Mesozoic stock - oil painting

The giants' league: Mesozoic stock

the hadrosaur Shantungosaurus giganteus and the stegosaur Stegosaurus stenops

large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

The giants' league: leviathans

The giants' league: leviathans - oil painting

The giants' league: leviathans

anextant mysticete, the Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus, and an elasmosaur, probably Elasmosaurus

large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

The giants' league: dragon!

The giants' league: dragon! - oil painting

The giants' league: dragon!

azhdarchid pterosaurs like Hatzegopteryx thambema

large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

The giants' league: who needs bones...

The giants' league: who needs bones... - oil painting

The giants' league: who needs bones...

the extant jellyfish Cyanea capillata and the Colossal squid Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni (as damaged from fishery)

large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

The giants' league: sauropods

The giants' league: sauropods - oil painting

The giants' league: sauropods

two Jurassic forms, Brachiosaurus/Giraffatitan brancai and Diplodocus hallorum/"Seismosaurus"

large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Triassic assemblage: Fishes

Triassic assemblage: Fishes - digital art

Triassic assemblage: Fishes

Langenberg/Fuchsberg locality

Gregor Barth, Matthias Franz, Carmen Heunisch, Evelyn Kustatscher, Detlev Thies, Jürgen Vespermann and Markus Wolfgramm (2014): Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) brackish to freshwater habitats at a fluvial-dominated delta plain (Seinstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany). - Palaeobiol. Palaeoenv.

DOI 10.1007/s12549-014-0168-6

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Triassic assemblage: Fishes

Triassic assemblage: Fishes - digital art

Triassic assemblage: Fishes

Langenberg/Fuchsberg locality

Gregor Barth, Matthias Franz, Carmen Heunisch, Evelyn Kustatscher, Detlev Thies, Jürgen Vespermann and Markus Wolfgramm (2014): Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) brackish to freshwater habitats at a fluvial-dominated delta plain (Seinstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany). - Palaeobiol. Palaeoenv.

DOI 10.1007/s12549-014-0168-6

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Triassic assemblage: Arthropods

Triassic assemblage: Arthropods - digital art

Triassic assemblage: Arthropods

Langenberg/Fuchsberg locality

Gregor Barth, Matthias Franz, Carmen Heunisch, Evelyn Kustatscher, Detlev Thies, Jürgen Vespermann and Markus Wolfgramm (2014): Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) brackish to freshwater habitats at a fluvial-dominated delta plain (Seinstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany). - Palaeobiol. Palaeoenv.

DOI 10.1007/s12549-014-0168-6

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Triassic assemblage: Arthropods

Triassic assemblage: Arthropods - digital art

Triassic assemblage: Arthropods

Langenberg/Fuchsberg locality

Gregor Barth, Matthias Franz, Carmen Heunisch, Evelyn Kustatscher, Detlev Thies, Jürgen Vespermann and Markus Wolfgramm (2014): Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) brackish to freshwater habitats at a fluvial-dominated delta plain (Seinstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany). - Palaeobiol. Palaeoenv.

DOI 10.1007/s12549-014-0168-6

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Triassic assemblage: Arthropods

Triassic assemblage: Arthropods - digital art

Triassic assemblage: Arthropods

Langenberg/Fuchsberg locality

Gregor Barth, Matthias Franz, Carmen Heunisch, Evelyn Kustatscher, Detlev Thies, Jürgen Vespermann and Markus Wolfgramm (2014): Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) brackish to freshwater habitats at a fluvial-dominated delta plain (Seinstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany). - Palaeobiol. Palaeoenv.

DOI 10.1007/s12549-014-0168-6

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Triassic assemblage: Tetrapods

Triassic assemblage: Tetrapods - digital art

Triassic assemblage: Tetrapods

Langenberg/Fuchsberg locality

Gregor Barth, Matthias Franz, Carmen Heunisch, Evelyn Kustatscher, Detlev Thies, Jürgen Vespermann and Markus Wolfgramm (2014): Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) brackish to freshwater habitats at a fluvial-dominated delta plain (Seinstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany). - Palaeobiol. Palaeoenv.

DOI 10.1007/s12549-014-0168-6

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Triassic assemblage: Plants

Triassic assemblage: Plants - digital art

Triassic assemblage: Plants

Langenberg/Fuchsberg locality

Gregor Barth, Matthias Franz, Carmen Heunisch, Evelyn Kustatscher, Detlev Thies, Jürgen Vespermann and Markus Wolfgramm (2014): Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) brackish to freshwater habitats at a fluvial-dominated delta plain (Seinstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany). - Palaeobiol. Palaeoenv.

DOI 10.1007/s12549-014-0168-6

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Paleozoic scorpion

Paleozoic scorpion - digital art

Paleozoic scorpion

preview of a restoration to come

© 2015 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

branchiosaur fairy

branchiosaur fairy - digital art

branchiosaur fairy

fun reconstruction, based on a branchiosaur skeleton to which mayfly wings are placed in a way that pretends anatomical association

Werneburg, R. & Brauner, S. (2014): The 'flying branchiosaur' - a mayfly? Freiberger Forschungshefte C 548 (psf 22), 61-69.

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

caseid paleo-ecology

caseid paleo-ecology - digital art

caseid paleo-ecology

preview of an article to come

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

*Coelodonta antiquitatis*

Coelodonta antiquitatis - gouache

Coelodonta antiquitatis

woolly rhinoceros

Museum for Natural History Magdeburg

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

*Elephas antiquus*

Elephas antiquus - gouache

Elephas antiquus

'straight-tusked' elephant

Museum for Natural History Magdeburg

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Wealden landscape I

Wealden landscape I - oil, 100x120

Wealden landscape I

a series illustrating dinosaur footprint producers from both the fluviatile and the shallow lagoon sandstones of Obernkirchen and Münchehagen, Germany

Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Wealden landscape II

Wealden landscape II - oil, 100x120

Wealden landscape II

a series illustrating dinosaur footprint producers from both the fluviatile and the shallow lagoon sandstones of Obernkirchen and Münchehagen, Germany

Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Wealden landscape III

Wealden landscape III - oil, 100x120

Wealden landscape III

a series illustrating dinosaur footprint producers from both the fluviatile and the shallow lagoon sandstones of Obernkirchen and Münchehagen, Germany

Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Wealden landscape IV

Wealden landscape IV - oil, 100x120

Wealden landscape IV

a series illustrating dinosaur footprint producers from both the fluviatile and the shallow lagoon sandstones of Obernkirchen and Münchehagen, Germany

Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Late Paleozoic assemblage

Late Paleozoic assemblage - oil

Late Paleozoic assemblage

typical Saar-Nahe fossils of ancient trees (calamites, Psaronius, conifer), fish (Triodus, Paramblypterus, cockroach-like insects (Glaphyrophlebia) and large temnospondlys (Sclerocephalus)

Flyer for Urweltmuseum GEOSKOP Thallichtenberg

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

post-glacial succession I

post-glacial succession I - oil

post-glacial succession I

North of the Harz mountains: tundra and birch woodland, with the 'Irish Elk' (Megaloceros giganteus and an Arctic redpoll (Carduelis hornemann).

Museum for Natural History Magdeburg

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

post-glacial succession II

post-glacial succession II - oil

post-glacial succession II

North of the Harz mountains: warm oak forests, inhabited by the Aurochs (Bos primigenius).

Museum for Natural History Magdeburg

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

post-glacial succession III

post-glacial succession III - oil

post-glacial succession III

North of the Harz mountains: artificial steppe with plants flowering in early September, with Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and a Water rail (Rallus aquaticus).

Museum for Natural History Magdeburg

© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Cambrians!

Cambrians! - pencil

Cambrians!

not quiet often, but by this lucky occasion, i did Pikeia, Microdictyon, and the predator Opabinia

Elicki, O. (2014): Als das Leben „explodierte“ und eine völlig neue Welt entstand (Kambrium). – In: Rothe, P., Storch, V. & von See, C.: Lebensspuren im Stein. Ausflüge in die Erdgeschichte Mitteleuropas – Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 285p.

© 2010 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Sarcopterygian

Sarcopterygian - pencil, ink

Sarcopterygian

unnamed coelycanth fish from the Triassic of Madygen, Kyrgyzstan)

Kogan, I., Fischer, J., Voigt, S., Schneider J.W. & Spindler, F. (2013): The ichthyofauna of the non-marine Triassic Madygen Formation (Southwest Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia). – 6th International Meeting on Mesozoic Fishes: Diversification and Diversity Patterns (abstract volume, Univ. Vienna & Nat. H. Mus. Vienna), 39. [Poster]

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

biodiversity panoply

biodiversity panoply - oil

biodiversity panoply

miniatures for a tree of life / illustrated clade

 

SCROLL DOWN THROUGH LARGER PREVIEWS

 

produced for Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

1. Microbes

1. Microbes - oil

1. Microbes

procyte (bacteria) and eucyte

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

2. Cambrian exploders

2. Cambrian exploders - oil

2. Cambrian exploders

Anamalocaris, Marrella, and ellipsocephalid trilobite

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

3. Shelly seafood

3. Shelly seafood - oil

3. Shelly seafood

Orthoceras and Halkieria

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

4. Almost fish

4. Almost fish - oil

4. Almost fish

conodont basal vertrebrate, Haikouichthys, and Arandaspis

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

5. Devonian land conquerers

5. Devonian land conquerers - oil

5. Devonian land conquerers

Rhynia, Strudiella, and Acanthostega

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

6. Creepy-crawlies

6. Creepy-crawlies - oil

6. Creepy-crawlies

Aysheaia and Eoarthropleura

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

7. Paleophyte trees

7. Paleophyte trees - oil

7. Paleophyte trees

Lepidodendron, Calamites, Archaeopteris, Cordaites, and conifer

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

8. Bug empire

8. Bug empire - oil

8. Bug empire

Sphecomyra, Stephanotypus, and Syscioblatta

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

9. Predatory fishes

9. Predatory fishes - oil

9. Predatory fishes

Parexus and Eustenopteron

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

10. Texas, Early Permian

10. Texas, Early Permian - oil

10. Texas, Early Permian

Dimetrodon and Eryops

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

11. Triassic players

11. Triassic players - oil

11. Triassic players

Nothosaurus, Plateosaurus, and Morganucodon

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

12. Jurassic airlines

12. Jurassic airlines - oil

12. Jurassic airlines

Rhamphorhynchus and Archaeopteryx

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

13. New elements

13. New elements - oil

13. New elements

Magnolia, Archaeofructus, and Confuciusornis

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

14. Birds threatening horses

14. Birds threatening horses - oil

14. Birds threatening horses

Propalaeotherium and Gastornis

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

15. Ice age

15. Ice age - oil

15. Ice age

modern man, mammoth, grass

© 2013 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

*Glaukerpeton*

Glaukerpeton - oil

Glaukerpeton

aquatic eryopids

Werneburg, R. & Berman, D.S. (2012): Revision of the aquatic eryopid temnospondyl Glaukerpeton avinoffi ROMER, 1952, from the Upper Pennsylvanian of North America. - Annals of Carnegie Museum 81(1), 33-60.

© 2012 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Dissorophoid amphibians

Dissorophoid amphibians - oil

Dissorophoid amphibians

Mordex (largest), Platyrhinops (smaller walking one), Limnogyrinus (largest swimming), Branchiosaurus (larger one with external gills) and Nyranerpeton milneri gen. et spec. nov. (smallest adult), together with their larvae, from Nýřany, Bohemia (Czech Republic), Upper Carboniferous

cover illustration

Werneburg, R. (2012): Dissorophoide Amphibien aus dem Westphalian D (Ober-Karbon) von Nýřany in Böhmen (Tschechische Republik) - der Schlüssel zum Verständnis der frühen 'Branchiosaurier'. - Semana 27: 3-50.

© 2012 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

*Arthropitys bistriata*

Arthropitys bistriata - pencil, digitally colored

Arthropitys bistriata

calamite tree from the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany, Early Permian, with an estimated height of about 15 m - one of the first evidence for branched architecture in calamite trees!

Rößler, R., Feng, Z. & Noll, R. (2012): The largest calamite and its growth architecture - Arthropitys bistriata from the Early Permian Petrified Forest of Chemnitz. - Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology 185: 64-78.

Rößler, R. (2014): Farnwälder, Glutwolken und Salzwüsten (Perm). – In: Rothe, P., Storch, V. & von See, C.: Lebensspuren im Stein. Ausflüge in die Erdgeschichte Mitteleuropas – Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 285p.

© 2011 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Madygen microvertebrate site

Madygen microvertebrate site - digital art

Madygen microvertebrate site

generalized schemes of Triassic vertebrates, used as "mapping ground" for microvertebrate remains

Poster for the Paläontologische Gesellschaft annual meeting / Franeck et al. in prep.

© 2012 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Taphonomic cartoon

Taphonomic cartoon - digital painting

Taphonomic cartoon

comic style taphonomic story about the volcano eruption that brought down the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany

Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz

© 2012 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

*Confuciusornis*

Confuciusornis - pencil

Confuciusornis

re-make of the simple drawing for the design of the new album of the Swiss band

THE BEAUTY OF GEMINA

design copyright held by

www.thebeautyofgemina.com

 

© 2011 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Triassic lake ecosystem

Triassic lake ecosystem - gouache

Triassic lake ecosystem

Details from the scene shown below: Longisquama (rotated, as a "dancing lizard"), background with the shark Lonchidion, ostracods, the fishes Sixtelia & Ferganiscus, at the left a snail, at the right the crustacean Almatium (Kazacharthra)

cover illustration from the featured article:

Fischer, J., Voigt, S., Schneider, J.W., Buchwitz, M. & Voigt, S. (2011): A selachian freshwater fauna from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and its implicatiosn for mesozoic shark nurseries. - J. Vert. Pal. 31 (5): 937-953.

for scientific images from that klick here

© 2009 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Triassic lake ecosystem

Triassic lake ecosystem - gouache, ca. 60 x 80 cm

Triassic lake ecosystem

life scene of the lakustrine fossil lagerstaette Madygen (Triassic, Kyrgyzstan), shore zone with calamites and allochthonous leaves on the lake bed; right above a drifting body of the enigmatic reptile Longisquama, which the palaeoniscid fishes Sixtelia and Ferganiscus feed on; dark colored two sharks of the genus Lonchidion, producers of the egg capsules Palaeoxyris (attached to some calamites, and reconstructed next to the image, together with an original fossil's portrayal); invertebrates: crustaceans (Kazacharthra and Ostracoda), snail and pelecypods

cover illustration from the featured article:

Fischer, J., Voigt, S., Schneider, J.W., Buchwitz, M. & Voigt, S. (2011): A selachian freshwater fauna from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and its implicatiosn for mesozoic shark nurseries. - J. Vert. Pal. 31 (5): 937-953.

for scientific images from that klick here

© 2009 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Triassic shark nursery

Triassic shark nursery - digital art, insets: pencil

Triassic shark nursery

one of the versions for a digital ecosystem reconstruction, as used for the article cited below; insets: Lonchidion shark (eggs named Palaeoxyris) with capsules attached to calamites, hatchlings feding on a pelecypod pavement, deposited emty eggs

Fischer, J., Voigt, S., Schneider, J.W., Buchwitz, M. & Voigt, S. (2011): A selachian freshwater fauna from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and its implicatiosn for mesozoic shark nurseries. - J. Vert. Pal. 31 (5): 937-953.

featured article, cover illustration above; for scientific images klick here

also used for a poster [first poster prize at Munich Pal.Soc. Meeting 2010]:

Kogan, I., Fischer, J., Voigt, S., Licht, M. & Schneider, J.W. (2010): The Madygen lake deposits: A unique multi-taxa kindergarten for Triassic fishes? - Zitteliana B, Abh. Bayr. Staatssamml. Pal. u. Geol. 29 (80. Jahrestagung Pal. Ges.), B 29: 61.

 

© 2010 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

burrows

burrows - digital art

burrows

tetrapod burrows from the Triassic of Morocco (therapsids or procolophonids)

cover illustration with featured article

Procolophon life scene inspired by this

 

cover illustration for featured article:

Voigt, S., Schneider, J. W., Saber, H., Hminna, A., Lagnaoui, A., Klein, H., Brosig, A. & Fischer, J. (2011): Complex tetrapod burrows from Middle Triassic red-beds of the Argana Basin (Western High Atlas, Morocco).- Palaios, 26, 555-566.

additional use:

Schön, Stephan: Lebendfutter für die ersten Saurier. - Sächsische Zeitung 10.Sept.2011, 27.

© 2011 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

burrows

burrows

burrows

preparatory steps of the latter, with aluminum foil maquette and digital sketches, fieldwork data discussion by Sebastian Voigt

© 2011 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

paleo globes

paleo globes - digital art

paleo globes

five stages of the continental plate condition throughout the earth's past

with special thanks to Marco Roscher and Olaf Elicki

booklet of the Freiberg Paleontological & Stratigraphical Collection

© 2011 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Life of the Cambrian

Life of the Cambrian - acrylic

Life of the Cambrian

Anomalocaris canadensis, on the the first large top predators on earth

booklet of the Freiberg Paleontological & Stratigraphical Collection

© 2011 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Life of the Carboniferous

Life of the Carboniferous - acrylic

Life of the Carboniferous

Arthropleura armata, a giant myriapod, and plants (Nemejcopteris, Neuropteris & Medullosa, Senftenbergia)

booklet of the Freiberg Paleontological & Stratigraphical Collection

© 2011 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Life of the Permian

Life of the Permian - acrylic

Life of the Permian

Pantelosaurus saxonicus, a sphenacodont pelycosaur, and a Medullosa tree

booklet of the Freiberg Paleontological & Stratigraphical Collection

© 2011 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Life of the Jurassic

Life of the Jurassic - acrylic

Life of the Jurassic

the marine Holzmaden fauna, with Stenopterygius (ichthyosaur), Geoteuthis (belemnite calamary) , Lepidotus & Pachycormus (fishes) and Dactylioceras (ammonites)

booklet of the Freiberg Paleontological & Stratigraphical Collection

© 2011 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Life of the Cretaceous

Life of the Cretaceous - acrylic

Life of the Cretaceous

an elasmosaurid plesiosaur, with Pinna (pen shells) in the foreground

booklet of the Freiberg Paleontological & Stratigraphical Collection

© 2011 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

geological time spiral

geological time spiral - digital art

geological time spiral

in scale for the Phanerozoic era

with miniatures of dispositive organisms

man based on Carl Spitzweg's geologist

booklet of the Freiberg Paleontological & Stratigraphical Collection

© 2011 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

Arthropoden

Arthropoden - Tusche

Arthropoden

Beispielbilder der Gliederfüßer-Gruppen und grobe Übersicht der Systematik

Katalog Insektarium, Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz

© 2010 Frederik Spindler.

tetanure Dinosaurier

tetanure Dinosaurier - digital, nach Handzeichnung

tetanure Dinosaurier

erneuerte Skelettgruppe früher Tetanuren, in Reihenfolge der Köpfe v.l.n.r.: Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis, Torvosaurus tanneri, Piatnitzkysaurus floresi, Megalosaurus bucklandi, Afrovenator abakensis und Cryolophosaurus ellioti

hier zur alten Version

 

für eine australische Fernsehproduktionsfirma (Propero Productions: Dino Stampede, postproductions von Dokus der BBC, National Geografic und Smithonian Channel)

© 2010 Frederik Spindler.

Geologie

Geologie - Vorlage in Tusche und Buntstift

Geologie

geologische Blockbilder, Gesteinsgefüge, Fossilien und Varianten des Maskottchens „Petro“, unter der Aufgabe der Pädagogik und Geolehre, für die Sonderausstellung „Strandsteine“ in Chemnitz 2007

Rößler, R., Zierold, T., Spindler, F. & Rudolph, F. (2007): Strandsteine – eine Ausstellung des Museums für Naturkunde Chemnitz. Veröff. Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz 30, 5-24.

© 2007 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

*Carcharodontosaurus*

Carcharodontosaurus - Bleistift

Carcharodontosaurus

In Marokko, gegen Mitte der Kreidezeit, kämpfen zwei Deltadromeus gegen einen riesigen Carcharodontosaurus. In dieser älteren Szene sind beide höchst gewagt mit Protofedern dargestellt, was nicht zutreffen dürfte, dennoch von  der PREHISTORIC TIMES verwendet.

weitere Produktionen für PREHISTORIC TIMES unter "Rekonstruktionen"

Bilder von Iguanodon für PREHISTORIC TIMES unter "Dinosaurier"

Prehistoric Times (75), 2006.

© Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

*Confuciusornis*

Confuciusornis - Bleistift

Confuciusornis

einer der primitivsten kurzschwänzigen Vögel, Confuciusornis sanctus der chinesischen Unterkreide, der mit mehreren Funden tatsächlich eine enge Paarbindung offenbart (das ?Männchen trägt zwei Schmuckfedern, das ?Weibchen gar keine Stoßfedern), verwendet in der Sonderausstellung „Drachen mit Federn“ in Maastricht 2006

Schulp, A. et al. (2006): Draakjes met veren – Vliegende dino’s uit China (Begleitheft zur Ausstellung). Naturhistorische Museum Maastricht und Rotterdam (p.2 & 16).

© Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.

*Andalgalornis*

Andalgalornis - Bleistift

Andalgalornis

Andalgalornis, ein jagender Laufvogel (Phorusrhacidae) des südamerikanischen Känozoikums mit beweglichen, Krallen tragenden Fingern und von etwa 1,5 m Höhe; Auftrag der FAZ

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung vom 01.03.06: "Schreckliche Vögel", Feuilleton (Natur und Wissenschaft).

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saltasauriner Titanosaurier

saltasauriner Titanosaurier - Bleistift

saltasauriner Titanosaurier

eine saltasauriner Titanosauride als Jungtier und Fuß des Alttiers im selben Maßstab, einst Bestandteil des Dinosaurier-Kalenders 2006, dann einem populärwissenschaftlichen Magazin zur Verfügung gestellt

PaleoMir 2 (5), 2008 (p.80).

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*Pantelosaurus* („*Haptodus*“) *saxonicus*

Pantelosaurus („Haptodus“) saxonicus - Bleistift

Pantelosaurus („Haptodus“) saxonicus

der Rudelfund von mindestens sechs Synapsiden (Pelycosauria: Sphenacodontia: Pantelosaurus) aus dem Karbon-Perm-Grenzbereich des Döhlener Beckens bei Dresden (Abschluss des obersten Steinkohlenflözes), verwendet durch die Sonderausstellung „Blumengebirge“ in Dresden 2005

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Kunzmann, L. (2005): Blumengebirge – ein fossiles Herbarium (Begleitheft zur Ausstellung). Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie (p.82f).

Rektorat der Technischen Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Hrsg. (2007): Wissenschaft vor Ort. Bilder zu Geschichte und Gegenwart der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, TU BAF, 2. Aufl. (p.245).

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