Dilophosaurus
Meaning: di-lophos-sauros “two-crested lizard”
Family: Dilophosauridae
Suborder: Theropoda
Order: Saurischia
Time Period: Sinemurian (Early Jurassic) -- about 190-199 million years ago
Location: Present-day Arizona & Sweden. Possibly also Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Length: 7 meters / 23 ft. long
Weight: 400 kilograms / 880 lbs.
Diet: Carnivore
Artist's Notes: Though my Dilo doesn't have the Jurassic Park frill, I still made it fantasy-style with scales and pronated wrists :P
This is the first in my new series studying prehistoric creatures. As I usually do a lot of heavily-saturated art of fantasy creatures like Pokémon, I am practicing with using more neutral tones and de-saturated colors (not to a completely dull extent, though)!