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A display on life in the Paleocene and Eocene featuring the skeleton of a Uintatherium anceps at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum.
Not much from me today for #inktober, just a simple coloured sketch
#Day13 - Fraxinus wilcoxiana #Ash
Fraxinus wilcoxiana is a type of fossilised seed placed within the modern genus Fraxinus, Ash Trees. Its fossils hale from the Eocene aged Claiborne Formation of North America.
For #FossilFriday, the oldest European ruminant! Bachitherium thraciensis from Bulgaria & Serbia (ca. 38My, Late Eocene). These fossils explain a tectonical diachronism of the faunal dispersals into Europe at the base of the Oligocene (34My vs 31My).
#weloveruminants, #sabertooth
#FossilFriday
Absence of very large penguins today is likely due to the Oligo-Miocene radiation of marine mammals.
Mayr et al. 2017 @NatureComms
A Paleocene #penguin from New Zealand substantiates multiple origins of #gigantism in fossil Sphenisciformes
https://t.co/lsypVXeUde
This furtive little creature is Nodontoraptor australis, a descendant of derived #Troodontids. Dwelling in the subtropical open forests of Late Eocene Texas, Nodontoraptor was named for one surprising anatomical feature: a completely toothless beak! #dinosaurs #speczoo
does it give anyone else full-body chills to think that the light we observe from that black hole bent around it during the EOCENE 55 Ma? Earth looked like this then and had all these cool animals. and that light has been travelling towards us thru space ever since 😭😭😭
This plot in @AAlechiarenza & @pdmannion's brilliant new paper breaks my heart.
The niches were there for dinosaurs to thrive in the Paleocene...but the asteroid took that chance away from them.
But, it opened those same niches to placental mammals, and here we are!
Huge Archaic Whale Was Top Predator in Eocene Oceans
https://t.co/e6RsiZ4Wis
#paleontology #science
The bathornids were lesser-known relatives of the famous South American terror birds that inhabited North America from the Eocene to the Miocene. Here's the largest species, Paracrax gigantea.
stomach contents of fossil whale shows that it fed on both smaller whales and large fishes
Stomach contents of the archaeocete Basilosaurus isis: Apex predator in oceans of the late Eocene https://t.co/X595ULz6I8
Sequiwaimanu, the most completely preserved Paleocene penguin found. Take a look at this skull! At about 61 million years old, it's also one of the oldest known penguins. (📷Mayr et al.)
Embolotherium grangeri was a herbivore from the Eocene.
(Credit: Roman Uchytel)
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Eomanis is the earliest known pangolin, which lived in Europe during the Middle Eocene. It was 50 cm long.
(Credit: Nobu Tamura)
Allqokirus australis (Sparassodonta, #Metatheria) from the early #Palaeocene of Tiupampa (#Bolivia) and the rise of the metatherian carnivorous radiation in South America, by Christian de MUIZON et al.
https://t.co/6u06I05Jg0
#Geodiversitas #paleontology #Science #mnhn
Morphology & phylogeny of fossil snake mackerels and cutlassfishes from Eocene London Clay Fm (Isle of Sheppey) https://t.co/CvnbrNV8mA #FossilFriday
I’ll be giving a talk about PALEOCENE at the @alfmuseum on March 10. Come on by! https://t.co/wl3UmdePJa
Achaenodon robustus lived during the Eocene of North America, measured 2 metres & weighed up to 300kg.
(Credit: WillemSvdMerwe)