What animal groups do you classify brute wyverns as?

There’s too many options with descriptions too long to fit on a 12 answer poll so you’ll have to comment your answer on this one, sorry.

Also this is the last poll!

This is the last post seeing what people classify different monsters as, and as usual people had some pretty cool ideas!

Alright let’s get into my thoughts, and this shouldn’t be too long.

Anjanath and Deviljho are likely tyrannosaurs, and possibly related, although Anjanath has three fingers. This means they possibly split from other tyrannosaurs right before the loss of digit three but right when strong jaws were evolving.

Brachydios and Barroth are likely closely related due to their armored heads, tail clubs, and well developed arms. I place them as neoceratosaurs due to the family having members with very keratinized faces and headgear as well as scutes.

Glavenus would theoretically belong to the ceratosaur group…

buuuuutttttt

Glavenus is one of my favorite monsters and tyrannosaurs are tied with paraves for my favorite dinosaur group. Even though I haven’t shown frontier monsters in this series of posts, I use them in my phylogenetic trees just because it’s good to have a large sample size. I placed it closest to Abiorugu and Giaorugu, which are also canonically related to Deviljho. So I can get away with calling the sword tailed carnotaurus a tyrannosaur.

Every other brute except for a certain Metroid faced freak I’ve united into a single group due to how some members have beaks, tusks, or both, as well as most having omnivorous or herbivorous diets. I thought it would have fun phylogenetic and anatomical implications to make them heterodontosaurs.

Due to the short face, tusks, and skin secretions I’m betting on making Quematrice a sister group to the aans. I’ll also move banbaro to be a sister genus to duramboros and put Dalthydon as a sister genus to Kestodon.

Rompopolo I think might be part of the more basal families of parave wyverns like the new world raptors and Seikret, that started converging on Alverasaurs. Meaning it’s actually a “bird wyvern”.

Thank you all who participated in this fun series of posts!

Skulls of Gravios, Basarios, Radobaan, and Uragaan are available for early viewing on my patreon!

Skulls I made for the video

Gravios/Basarios was made using parave anatomy as usual, although I made the fenestra small to give a sense of robustness and to make a small frill. All the bosses made it a little hard. Basarios also doesn’t have nostrils?? So I just gave him some.

I made the aans using heterodontosaur anatomy since it’s an interesting theory of mine. I imagine the predentary acts as a lip to be both a shovel when eating and to hook detritus they armor their chins with. The double row of teeth of the aans might either be a single zigzagging row or possibly a conveyor belt system like a shark, with the outside teeth being the oldest.

@krmoaten-blog got access to SFM and with it the models of fifth gen monsters

So I thought now’s the time to revisit some of the first monhun skulls I made (Uragaan and Nargacuga), since I know what I’m doing now and have a better understanding of the cranial anatomy of paraves and heterodontosaurs

I said I had done other monhun skulls before but I don’t think I showed some of them. So here’s the ones I’ve never posted.

From top left to bottom right:

An unshaded Uragaan skull made using heterodontosaurs as reference (you can tell it’s the first monhun skull I’ve ever done)

An Anjanath skull made using tyrannosaurs as reference

A Nargacuga skull made using deinonychus as reference

A new world Zinogre skull made using dinocephalians as reference

Like I’ve said before, if you have a really good perfect side view of a monster head then I might draw the skull.