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@lichelets first i wanna say
god dammit it liche shes hot fml
anyway I'm throwing Eocene in the pot for extreme nasty, i think theyd be cute (awful). though i never finished it, putting in extra fucked up monstery eocene as my bid also 🙏 dom ofc
There's 2 taxa that might make good references for Embolo. One is Rhinotitan, a tall browser from the mid Eocene of China. This probably represents the common ancestor to both groups of derived brontotheres that crossed over from Asia to NA
So, Brontotheriidae is a diverse group of Eocene perissodactyls closer to horses then rhinos or tapirs. Outside of the huge famous ones there are many cool smaller sp, like the tapir-sized Dolichorhinus, who rerouted its entire nasal passage for more effecient smelling
Doing the ground sloth thing before there were ground sloths
Concept sketch of a pair of Barylambda, a large pantodont mammal from the Late Paleocene of North America
Paleo Fact!
Hesperocyon (Western Dog) is a canid from Eocene North America! It's possibly the oldest known canid, with one specimen dated to be as far back as roughly 39-40 million years ago! But in spite of this, it looked very different from- (1/2)
Art by FabrizioDeRossi!
Here you can see what I did for Atlantis phase 1 and 2. 3 submission in total, my first 2 made it into the Paleocene island's fauna, now I'll cross fingers for my newest creation.
#Atlantisbestiaryphase2 #speculativebiology
New Zealand Giant Penguin
Information: Pachydyptes is an extinct genus of penguin. It contains the single species Pachydyptes ponderosus, the New Zealand giant penguin. This taxon is known from a few bones from Late Eocene (37 to 34 MYA) rocks in the area of Otago.
Kutchicetus minimus was an early whale from the Eocene, & at 2.5m long, it was probably the smallest cetacean of its time. It was semi-aquatic, like an otter.
(Credit Roman Uchytel)
And finally, here you have the antiq 04!
The Carbonemys was a giant tortoise that lived during the Paleocene in South America 🐢
Hope you like it ❤️🔥✍🏼
New: Onary, Hsiou, Lee & Palci – Redescription, taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of Boavus Marsh, 1871 (Serpentes: Booidea) from the early–middle Eocene of the USA https://t.co/ex62c32psD
A huge basilosaurid off the coast of late Eocene Peru, harassed for thier tuna
New fossil snapping turtle! Walter Joyce and colleagues describe a new species of fossil pan-chelydrid turtle, Chelydropsis aubasi, from the Middle Eocene of France. The discovery advances
arrival of pan-chelydrids to Europe by 10+ million years.
https://t.co/6niV6TO3Kq
Embolotherium grangeri - a herbivore from the Eocene.
(Credit Roman Uchytel)
Freaky Fish! Monte Bolca is a fossil site in Italy that contains the world’s first known coral reef community. We have a full line of beachwear featuring the funky fish from the Eocene.
https://t.co/TOcLvgEehh
Designs by @GrecoWestermann
#sciart #paleoart
For #FossilFriday, Adrian et al. describe and evaluate new specimens of the Eocene geoemydid turtle Bridgeremys & apply geometric morphometric techniques to evaluate epiplastral variation among co-occurring geoemydids in the Uinta Basin.
https://t.co/JJxsSHrm0v
Artist:yuno_(p2eocene)
Character:Selen Tatsuki
Media:Nijisanji, Nijisanji En
https://t.co/7aX7AqAP3c