Ivan Iofrida - Scientific Illustrator

Prizes

ANTEO-2º Concorso di Paleoarte- 2020

ANTEO - 2nd Paleoart Prize

ANTEO

ANTEO - Associazione Natura Terra E Oceano

2nd Prize

Entry:

Coelodonta antiquitatis

"Ghosts in the darkness"

Panthera gombaszoegensis with Leptobos sp.

Woolly rhinos fighting in snow.

A smilodon (Smilodon populator) is entering the water at an unknown in South America. Thanks to its stout elongated neck held aloft, it manages to get a good view of its surroundings. Sweetening the view of this predator are some sphingids dating back to the Pleistocene and found in South America (Palaeobiology Database).

In a nocturnal scenario, a specimen of Panthera gombaszoegensis has just felled an individual of the genus Leptobos. The scene does not take place in a dense forest; in fact, the so-called “Tuscan panther” was probably a solitary animal that was ill-suited to live in highly forested and/or wooded environment [O'Regan et al., 2002]. Such predation scenarios are highly likely given the coexistence of the two genera in the same territories of Pleistocene Italy and in the same temporal range (Argant et al., 2007; Masini et al., 2013; Palaeobiology Database) The mantle pattern typology was inferred using a machine learning validated by a dataset consisting of data collected from taxa today belonging to Felidae. The prediction was tested using phylogenetic inference (Werdelin and Olsson, 1997; Ortolani, 1999), placing P. gombaszoegensis as a sister taxon to Panthera tigris (Chatar et al., 2022).

Premio Italiano di Paleoarte - 2023

Italian Paleoart Prize

Montevarchi Paleontological Museum

Museo Paleontologico di Montevarchi

Partecipation

Entries:

"Cats also swim"

Smilodon populator

"Ghosts in the darkness"

Panthera gombaszoegensis with Leptobos sp.

Premio Italiano di Paleoarte - 2024

Italian Paleoart Prize

Montevarchi Paleontological Museum

Museo Paleontologico di Montevarchi

Partecipation

Entry:

"Hunger."

Ichthyostega sp.

A specimen of Ichthyostega (Save-Soderbergh 1932) moves clumsily through the shallow muddy water of a river trying to catch specimens of Greenlandaspis mirabilis (Heintz, 1932). The fossil remains of these arthrodiri suggest a reddish coloration with a pale belly tending to yellow. The number of hand fingers of Ichthyostega was inferred following the work of Mednikov (2015).

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