Lithograph & watercolour, 2014, of the Santacrucian (Mid-Miocene) fauna of the Santa Cruz Formation in southern Patagonia. This print is part of my BFA senior thesis, focusing on the Sparassodont/Borhyaenoid marsupial predators of Miocene South America.

The detail images are as follows:

The hawk Thegornis musculosus (colouration based on a white-tailed hawk)

The porcupine Steiromys duplicatus

Sparassodonts Sipalocyon gracilis, climbing up the tree, and Cladosictis patagonica stalking in the bushes

The sparassodont Prothylacinus patagonicus with a hapless Hapalops (early sloth)

The shrew opossum Caenolestes clings to the branch above

Two rabbit-like notoungulates Interatherium robustum hide in the bushes below

A pair of "terror birds," Phorusrhacos longissimus, defend their meal of the large, rhino-like notoungulate Nesodon from a scavenging pack of sparassodonts, Borhyaena tuberata