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Chasmosaurus

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In the middle of a particularly harsh drought, an old male Chasmosaurus is at the very last of his strength while trying to find some food and water. He's so weakened by famine and dehydration that he can't keep an eye out for any opportunistic predators anymore and the designs that once adorned its frill are fading away.
I tried hard to make this one look convincingly starved and diseased. Additional effects aside, I personally consider this to be my best ceratopsian so far, based on accuracy and detail, even when this is far from being among my favourite ceratopsids.
Chasmosaurus ("opening lizard", refering to the wide openings or fenestrae on its frill) was a medium-sized ceratopsian characterized by its large, somewhat rectangular, frill and its relatively short brow horns. Its frill also was particularly filmsy, being extremely thin in some areas, and the large gaps in it reduced it to little more than skin stretched over a bone frame. This species is also notable because its one of the dinosaur species that also has left skin imprints. It measured between 5 and 6 metres in length.
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Si... iba amencionar que su cuello se veia un tanto delgado y hasta "desnutrido" (<-no, really, eso pense escribir), pero leyendo la descripcion parece que le diste al clavo. Y eso aparte me agrado la textura de su espalda, y la perspectiva que da de su gola desde atras. Si... bastante detallado.