Fossil Profiles: Eokampourischium & Linnulaulia

 

A scène of a prehistoric Eryobian forest from the late Phylloceous period, roughly 173 million Eryobian years ago.

The Brachiostome Anisospondyl predator named Eokampourischium fatalis ambushes the armoured Pulvinopod dubbed Linnulaulia cataphractus.

At roughly 2.5 meters long, Eokampourischium would’ve been one of the biggest terrestrial carnivores of its time and was also among the first of its lineage, the Kampourischiids, that would reign as dominant predators in the following period, the Bobossic.

Linnulaulia is only known from osteoderms, spikes and a fragmentary skeleton, but judging from this, it is presumed to have been an early Pulvinopod.

The reconstruction and colouration of both species is based on modern (distant) relatives.