palaeo illustration

Digital painting of a Late Palaeozoic river landscape — petrified wood as an archive of tectonic history.

Digital painting of the soil fauna of the Chemnitz Petrified Forest, featuring Opsieobuthus tungeri.

Digital plate on demosponges, glass sponges and stromatoporoids, for academic teaching.

Digital painting of four trilobite genera, illustrating how these Palaeozoic arthropods armoured and folded their bodies.

Digital plate on belemnites – rostrum, phragmocone and the aberrant giant forms.

Digital painting of two top predators of the Solnhofen archipelago – proven by stomach content.

Digital painting of a group of crinoids and a solitary coral – two opposite challenges.

Digital painting of Late Permian soil fauna and a lizard-like parareptile as its hunter.

Digital painting of Thrissops from the Ettling quarry – every spot placed after fossil evidence.

Digital plate on the development of ammonoids from the Devonian to the Middle Jurassic.

Digital painting of two Early Jurassic marine reptiles that also stand at the beginning of their research history.

Digital painting of Fayolia – and why fossil eggs are named in such a peculiar way.