Longisquama Insignis (Skeletal Analysis of a Kyrgyz Diapsid)

from Thecodontia

February 16th, 2018
4 tracks
12:39
Thecodontia
Thecodontia
Longisquama Insignis (Skeletal Analysis of a Kyrgyz Diapsid)
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Longisquama Insignis (Skeletal Analysis of a Kyrgyz Diapsid)
Thecodontion
A holotype with intergumentary appendages Projecting from the back of its skeleton Seven, radiating in a fanlike pattern Spaced close together, tips unpreserved Proximal straight section divided Into three longitudinal lobes Raised rugae and deep interstices Not unlike a bone-made rosary bead Interior flange up to the tip of the distal section Ridged and separated by a grooved axis Projecting perpendicular or curving in S-shapes Vertebrae spines to anchorage points Resembling raised knobs, slightly convex Tubular in life, like feathers into a folicle Long scales, pseudosuchian, proto-archosaurian A gift of the lacustrine fluvial Madygen
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he project's moniker comes from an obsolete taxonomic group, Thecodontia (meaning "socket-teeth", pron. "Teh-co-don-tee-ah"), used to describe an order of archosaurian reptiles that lived from the Permian until the Triassic. They resembled crocodiles and were not actually dinosaurs.They were some of their ancestors.
The concept of this demo is entirely based on them, with four songs about four different genera of thecodonts.
credits
released February 16, 2018

Heliogabalus - vocals
Stilgar - bass, lyrics

Session/guest musicians:

Francesco Comerci - drums, programming


Cover art & layout by Giulia Ajmone-Cat
Logo by Andrew Cunningham (Malthusian, Wreck of the Hesperus)


Recorded, mixed and mastered by Francesco Comerci.

Credits

G.E.F. - vocals
G.D. - bass, lyrics

Session/guest musicians:

Francesco Comerci - drums, programming


Cover art & layout by Giulia Ajmone-Cat
Logo by Andrew Cunningham (Malthusian, Wreck of the Hesperus)


Recorded, mixed and mastered by Francesco Comerci.