Renzo Garavito

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Geologist | Scientific illustrator Bogotá-Colombia renzogaravito@gmail.com https://rgaravitoc.github.io

Initial sketch, digital sketch and early process steps.
Details of the background fauna, shark teeth and fossil.
Detail of the sharks swimming above your point of view.
It depicts the taphonomic history of an individual of the shark species classified as Protolamna ricaurtei from its sinking and burial to its fossilization, along with the remains of an associated turtle. In the background, other marine fauna from the upper Aptian layers of the Paja Formation (Association 3 of Benavides-Cabra et al., 2023), such as 𝘔𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪 and 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴, complete the scene.
Initial sketch, self-made 3d model reference for the teeth, and color and value explorations
Detail of the ammonoid
It depicts an individual of the ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘨𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘰𝘴𝘰 Páramo-Fonseca et al., 2023 hunting an ammonoid 𝘕𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 d'Orbigny.
It depicts an individual of the agglutinated foraminifera 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘴 Grzybowski, 1898, as it would be seen under an optical microscope, showing a particle selection behavior for the construction of its test.
It depicts an individual of the ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘨𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘮 Páramo, 1997 in a playful interspecific interaction with an ammonoid 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘵𝘪𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘻𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 Hyatt.