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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

2 years

The Brazilian pigeon: Psittacara leucophtalmus. Gouache on watercolor paper.

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@tupandactylus

2 years

A new paleoart piece in gouache. A look into the freshwater environment of the Rio do Rasto Fm. Small fish provide a cleaning service for Bageherpeton. In the foreground, two Paranaichthys carefully watch the scene. A Xenacanthus swims among Calamites stems in the background.

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@tupandactylus

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a small section of a larger piece I cannot show yet 👀

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@tupandactylus

11 months

While there are still people here... Markings on the bones from a 40,000-year-old young Ahytherium aureum (extinct giant sloth) suggest predation by a large predator, such as the jaguar.

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@tupandactylus

2 years

What if spinosaurids walked on the bottom of water bodies like capybaras? From a sketch for a commission that ended up not being used.

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@tupandactylus

2 years

Tiarajudens is resting, don't disturb him. Late Permian of Brazil, Rio do Rasto Formation. Gouache on watercolor paper.

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@tupandactylus

1 year

The Botucatu desert edge, where big trees still could thrive. A group of small cursorial ornithopods seeks shade from the midday sun. Gouache on paper.

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

2 years

Watch your steps ⚠️ Art for a new paper about an Eremotherium 🦥 vertebrae fractures, revealing a possible accident where this animal would have fallen into a cave.

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@tupandactylus

2 years

Friends guira cuckoos. Gouache on watercolor paper.

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@tupandactylus

2 years

A new take on Thalassodromeus. Gouache on watercolor paper.

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@tupandactylus

3 years

Art for a new paper on the isotopic ecology of Pleistocene jaguars in the Brazilian Intertropical Region. They probably suffered high ecological pressure from Smilodon populator.

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@tupandactylus

3 years

*Scratch scratch* Therizinosaurus chelonifornis, the third piece for the project I'm currently collaborating.

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@tupandactylus

1 year

Mesozoic mammal footprints on a church pillar, in São Carlos, Brazil

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@tupandactylus

2 years

Hey, #PortfolioDay ! I paint extinct stuff and living birds

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@tupandactylus

2 years

Provelosaurus, a Permian pareiasaurid from Brazil, Rio do Rasto Formation. Done for fun, testing out some new brushes.

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@tupandactylus

2 years

A portrait of Tapejara wellnhoferi. Back to my beloved pterosaurs again. Gouache on watercolor paper.

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@tupandactylus

3 years

Ok, I had to. A quick painting of the new T. navigans specimen that came out this week, with my old palette for the species. Very glad I had the chance to see this incredible fossil in person.

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@tupandactylus

2 years

Paleogene of Brazil, Itaboraí basin. A Sahitisuchus passing by scares off a small group of Lamegoia.

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

7 months

From the series: commission sketches that weren't used for the final piece

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

3 years

Very happy to announce another upcoming paper (still in pre-proof) with my art on it! This is Eptalofosuchus, a small notosuchian, and the first crocodyliform described from the Uberaba Formation, Upper Cretaceous of Brazil.

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@tupandactylus

3 years

There's always a bigger fish. A young Tarbosaurus, still displaying its juvenile plumage, finds the sign of something big nearby.

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@tupandactylus

2 years

Art for the release of a new paper describing the first titanosaur nesting site from the Cretaceous of Brazil 🦕🪺

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@tupandactylus

2 years

Since Twitter is not dead yet. Here's comission piece I did recently. Unaysaurus, from Triassic Caturrita Fm. Gouache on watercolor paper. I was very nice building the atmosphere in this one

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

1 year

Not everything that is written on sand get lost with time. These are some of the misterious inhabitants of the Botucatu Desert, some 140 million years ago, known only by its footprints preserved on dunes turned to stone.

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@tupandactylus

1 year

Another illustration is out! 🦕Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum had one of the biggest necks of all sauropods. All the time while painting I was thinking about how almost ridiculous these were

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

9 months

The last painting (and my favorite) for the thematic restaurant. This one depicts the Cretaceous, based on the Caiuá Group. A Vespersaurus checks on a group of pterosaurs wandering through the desert: Caiuajaras and a Keresdrakon.

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@tupandactylus

1 year

This is a preview of a thing I've been working on for some time... my biggest fear is discovering I missed something very important after releasing the final version (which already happened). I intend to make it available as a poster in the near future👀

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

2 years

And the last one done last week: Lacusovagus. Crest shape is speculative. Gouache and silver leafing on watercolor paper.

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

3 years

Well, I'll call it done. Here's the remasterization of my Caiuajaras at dawn. Finally😅

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@tupandactylus

3 years

My latest piece, done for a contest: Holmesina, a giant armadillo from the Late Pleistocene of Brazil, taking nap under a Tabebuia tree, while a Yellow-headed Caracara is having a snack out of the parasitized osteoderms.

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

11 months

Hello #PortfolioDay I do gouache and digital painting of extinct and living things

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@tupandactylus

3 years

Telmasaurus stealing from a Protoceratops nest. Mom is not happy. First of a series of pieces I'm making for a project by @guzman_elihu , which I'm working in collaboration.

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

4 years

Inspired by a picture of a beach I visited and the Kem Kem beds. This began as a color and light study, and I didn't have too much time to do a lot of research, so forgive any incorrect anatomy :) #paleoart

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@tupandactylus

2 years

Litterfall wanderers. Reposting after further working on this idea because I really liked it and thought it deserved more love.

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@tupandactylus

3 years

I did the #artvsartist thing

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@tupandactylus

2 years

A Cratoavis cearensis couple, a very small Enantiornithes, perched on a Araripia florifera branch. Crato Formation, Early Creteaceous of Brazil. Gouache and silver leafing on watercolor paper.

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

7 months

An artwork for a friend's paper about a coprolite from the Pleistocene of Southern Brazil. The coprolite was produced by a large carnivore, like Smilodon or Protocyon, and it was full of giant-sloth osteoderms, but small ones, indicating that it came from a juvenile.

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@tupandactylus

1 year

Female Bare-faced Curassow (Crax fasciolata). A little bit of poetic licence on the blue tones. Gouache on paper.

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

1 year

A new poster is coming. Any idea of where or when is it?

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@tupandactylus

2 years

Tried to recover an abandoned piece, which turned into unintentional digital impressionism. Itaboraí Basin, ~60 mya. Carodnia and Paleopsilpterus.

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@tupandactylus

2 years

New PaleoPortrait: Ludodactylus. Gouache on watercolor paper.

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

3 years

My illustration for the paper describing a new abelisaurid, Kurupi itaata, from the Late Cretaceous Marília Formation, published today 😁

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@tupandactylus

2 years

It's even more beautiful than I thought. Can't believe my work is here 🥹

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@tupandactylus

2 years

Tapinocephalids headbutting. Trying to reconstruct animals that I always found too weird. Suggestions about the position and anatomy are welcome. Another art resulting from my exploration of the Rio do Rasto Fm.

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

9 months

Checking once in a while to see who's still here and drop some art. Here's one of three commissions I did last year for a thematic restaurant. This one depicts the classic Brazilian triassic period.

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

3 years

Mononykus vs termite hill. The second piece I've made for an upcoming project by @guzman_elihu . Gotta say I'm pretty happy about how this one turned out

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

9 months

The second commission for the thematic restaurant, this time depicting the Jurassic Period in Brazil, of which we have very few fossils: only footprints and fragments.

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

2 years

Bananaquit on persimmon tree. Gouache on watercolor paper.

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@tupandactylus

3 years

Last year I was invited to contribute with two pieces for a new article on the Brazilian megafauna ecology, published this year! A Smilodon and a group of Protocyon fighting for food resources and the omnivore short-faced bear Arctotherium wingei.

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@tupandactylus

7 months

Reconstruction of the hindlimb muscles of Piatnitzkysaurus for the recently published paper by Lacerda and colleagues 🦖

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@tupandactylus

3 years

My moon series is all about different times of the day. Dawn, Noon, Dusk, Nightfall

Natalia Jagielska

@WryCritic

3 years

Palaeoart train? Why not. Dawn, Noon, Dusk, Nightfall

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

2 years

The turquoise waters of the Betari river crossing the Atlantic Rainforest. Oil on canvas.

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@tupandactylus

2 years

hello there

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@tupandactylus

1 year

Poster updated! Corrected some misspellings and some reconstructions, and kindaaaa tried to arrange the animals in a way that more or less reflect the faunal successions. Changed the colors a bit, with the purple frame having the official color of the Triassic.

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

2 years

New PaleoPortrait: Pampaphoneus biccai, a dinocephalian predator from the Permian of Brazil. Gouache on watercolor paper and silver leafing.

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

4 years

The Northwest of São Paulo during the Cretaceous (Adamantina Fm.). The Armadillosuchus awakes from estivation and looks around. With the rain, the semiarid begins to turn green again, attracting titanosaurs and birds. An abelisaur wasn't so lucky during the dry season. #paleoart

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@tupandactylus

4 years

#GetYourArtUnderwater And I found out that painting stuff underwater is actually fun

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@tupandactylus

4 years

Halskaraptor stretching its leg like a bird. I love when birds do that, it's so cute. Wonder if non-avian dinosaurs did the same

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@tupandactylus

1 year

Stahleckeria looks like a beast of burden from Tatooine

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@tupandactylus

3 years

While I don't have paleo stuff to share right now, have these geese I saw last month. Painted with gouache. Very angry and very pretty bois

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Júlia d'Oliveira

@tupandactylus

1 year

Artwork illustrating the research that unravels the skeleton structure of Corumbella werneri, a little animal that lived in Brazil almost 600 million years ago, in the Ediacaran Period. It had a mineralized skeleton composed of rows of imbricated plates, like roof tiles.

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@tupandactylus

1 year

Unused sketch of a lomg boi

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@tupandactylus

3 years

This was my "official piece of entry" in paleoart community and I still think it's one of my best compositions.

Charles Nye 🦕

@thepaintpaddock

3 years

What’s an older piece (>1 year) that you’re still proud of?

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@tupandactylus

2 years

it's all mammals at the same time (wip)

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@tupandactylus

1 year

Prestosuchus chiniquensis, one of several reconstructions I'm working on for the Santa Maria Fm.

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@tupandactylus

1 year

⚠️correction⚠️they're actually dinosaur footprints (checked today with binoculars)

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@tupandactylus

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Mesozoic mammal footprints on a church pillar, in São Carlos, Brazil

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2 years

going back to the dark world of paleobotany

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This is one of my favorite color pattern in birds. WIP

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New birb painting. A black crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) in folded mode.

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@tupandactylus

3 years

How it started (2006?), how it's going (2021)

Joanna Kobierska

@JoannaKobierska

3 years

How it started (2007), how it's going (2021)

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@tupandactylus

3 years

And from earlier this week. One of two bird paintings I was asked to make: the white throated toucan, in gouache.

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@tupandactylus

4 years

Remember turtle-duck from The Last Airbender?

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@tupandactylus

2 years

Colaptes campestris. Gouache on watercolor paper, and silver leafing.

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@tupandactylus

4 years

nº5: Brazilosaurus sanpauloensis, the most underground mesosaur

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@tupandactylus

1 year

QRT with your faces!

paleolee

@MF_gadelha

1 year

QRT with your faces!

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@tupandactylus

2 years

New art for a new paper! Megafauna's presence influenced today's plant traits distribution in Central and South America 🐘🌿

Vinícius L. Dantas

@DantasVL

2 years

Megafauna history matters to understand plant functional traits biogeography and biome distribution in South and Central America. Check out our new paper that was just published today: And also this cool illutration by @tupandactylus on the IWLantiherbiome

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4 years

Pterodaustro says hello

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4 years

cuddling Sinopterus

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2 years

WIP of some very old fish. In gouache.

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@tupandactylus

1 year

I love the Permian and its bizarre synapsids. This is Pampaphoneus from Rio do Rasto Fm. in southern Brazil, another formation I'm currently exploring

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@tupandactylus

3 months

It was an honor to create this artwork. It's a meaningful research for my friend and for Syrian paleontology😁

Wafa Adel Alhalabi

@WhWafa

3 months

We are delighted to announce the the description of the first ever Syrian elasmosaur! 🦴 ⛏️ 🇸🇾 It is still in pre-proof format, but it can be accessed via the link below. And this amazing paleoart was made by @tupandactylus .

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2 years

One smol painting. Done in oils.

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3 years

Another macaw commission: Ara chloropterus. In gouache.

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4 years

n°15: Tupandactylus imperator scratching its wing #paleoart

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4 years

Today I painted my neighbor's chickens on acrylics

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@tupandactylus

2 years

You know when you spend too much time on what should be a quick drawing and you don't actually like the result too much but still think you shouldn't just throw it away? Well

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4 years

n°6: Gallimimus, that certainly doesn't look like a chicken

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@tupandactylus

3 years

The Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) in gouache. This is going to be the sister painting of the toucan I did a couple of weeks ago.

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@tupandactylus

3 years

Another published paper with my artwork! 😁 This one is about the preservation modes of a Brazilian Ediacaran biota under volcanic and microbial influences. You can check it here:

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@tupandactylus

2 years

come to the paleogene we have smol horse idk

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Penelope obscura in a cloudy day. Gouache on watercolor paper.

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2 years

Thoughts on Itaboraí Basin fauna. Diogenornis, Prolipterna, and Eutreptodactylus

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2 years

A while ago I had a commission where I had to paint three HUGE pieces in just over a week. I can't show them yet, but here's a tiny part of it (I'm pretty happy with how these feet came out)

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WIP. I think rainforests are underrepresented in paintings

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4 years

n°10: Coelophysis over the stream #paleoart

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4 years

Another vacation inspired piece: Caviramus flying through cliffs. Trying out some non-pterodactyloids this time :) #paleoart

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@tupandactylus

4 years

Stereosternum and the giant stromatolites (yes, it sounds like a book or movie title)

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3 years

Sketching with pencils for the next piece

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nº16: Postosuchus in the shadow #paleoart

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@tupandactylus

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Hi, I'm still alive. Been busy with my research lately so I'm painting less. But I found some time to finish this painting. Here's a Little Blue Heron before it turned blue (Egretta caerulea).

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