Stomatoceratops Rough

EXTREMELY rough conceptual placeholder sketch for Diablocirritops, a mantis shrimp x ceratopsian hybrid. Most likely a fantastical transphyletic panspermazoid, but I was also toying with the possibility that it might represent an alternate lineage of dinosaur analogs derived from arthrodire placoderms, with the bony plates now subdermal and covered with a kind of tough-but-flexible leathery/thorny "soft-shell" armor. --In fact, maybe it's even derived from an antiarch; that could be where those raptorial forelimbs come from.

More Stomatosaurs in the works...Stay tuned for the Stomatosauropods and Stegomatosaurs!