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More hypothetical than I'd like...

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Edit August 21, 2017: There's new data suggesting that Pisanosaurus is in fact a silesaurid. I don't have any reason to doubt the new designation, but I probably won't have time to update the skeletal until early 2018 at the soonest, so paleoartists be warned!

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Pisanosaurus is less complete then I would usually require to execute a skeletal reconstruction. Still, its position as the most primitive known ornithiscian makes it important, and I was commissioned to do it for a museum display, so I've provided my best shot.

Given the paucity of the appendicular and skull material, artists should be warned that there will likely be changes made if/when more material is found (and no, I have no knowledge of additional material at this time).

Draw at your own risk!

At the same time, it's been a fascinating (and time consuming) exercise in examining the known acquisition of skull and postcranial characters as a basis for restoring the missing material; had Pisanosaurus been better supported as a basal heterodontosaur (for example), the skull would have been reconstructed quite differently.
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Liopurodon4x's avatar

Pisanosaurus is a ornithiscian agian baby WOOO!