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Fantasy Proboscideans always go hard

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2022-06-08

while people are screaming at each other on that post, did you know that Platybelodon ("flat-spear tusk") was a genus of large herbivorous mammals related to the elephant (order Proboscidea). It lived during the middle Miocene Epoch in Africa, Asia and the Caucasus.

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2022-04-08

Something nicer for a change: Moeritherium and Phiomia, two very early elephant relatives. had a proboscidean phase and insisted I draw some too. I just got myself together for long enough to finish them.

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2022-03-04

So many Thank you, ! I didn't know about Choerolophodon! https://t.co/WajYs3turc

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2022-02-14

Today we had a very special We looked into the anatomy, ecology and phylogeny of one of the earliest and WEIRDEST proboscideans ever! It's a roughly tapir sized animal from the Eocene of Algeria, from the El Kohol formation. (1/many)

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2022-02-05

Out of all the marvelous proboscideans I think my favourite is the humble american mastodon. bloody hell they are hard to sculpt though

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2022-01-31

Reitmeyer et al (2021) provide a unique look at the women working on palaeoart at the AMNH in the early C20th. Margret Joy Flinsch Buba reconstructed Proboscidea and went on to sculpt Pope Paul VI. And here’s Elisabeth Rungius Fulda’s (what a name) beautiful 1923 Baluchitherium.

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2022-01-07

Platybelodon

A really odd 4 meter long proboscidean easily recognized by its odd shovel like lower jaw, likely used to cut branches and strip bark from trees to feed

ALT: it was originally believed to live in swampy areas, using it teeth to shovel for aquatic vegetation

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2021-12-24

Our Mastodon shares their environment with black bears and a goose, two local animals left in the shadow of the now extinct proboscidean. One major aspect of our outreach is conveying just how many animals are more than we often think of them as.

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2021-12-23

Proboscidean Reunion

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2021-12-14

The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), because I want proboscideans living where I am.

Art of a mammoth in their winter coat by . Range map via Wikimedia Commons. https://t.co/yMvZccurIJ

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2021-08-07

Anancus

A 3 meter tall prehistoric proboscidean closely related to modern elephants, but with much longer tusks, likely used for defense, it lived and fed in forests

ALT: A species of anancus named after the Egyptian god of fertility and death that held a crook and flail

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2021-07-28

New pub from
and colleagues in . They explore macroevolutionary trends in my favourite group of mammals!

https://t.co/uM0ghduSua

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2021-07-02

THE CHRISTENING OF SISTER MOUSE. An exploration on kinds of headgear for the Greenbrier mice, prominently featuring proboscidea spicata. A mouse's cowl is an essential part of their identity, and made from an object foraged from their local environment.

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2021-07-01

Phiomia was an early member of the Proboscidea; distantly related to true Elephants. Remains are known from the Faiyum region of Egypt; from the Late Eocene to the Early Oligocene.

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2021-05-12

Started working on a little Phosphatherium today. Might develop the sketch later this week after I wrap up a few projects.

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2021-04-27

It's so I thought you might enjoy these Platybelodons 😃A proboscidean (group that incl. elephants🐘) that lived ~15-5 mya in Eurasia, Africa & N. America. These are in the Beijing Museum of Natural History. by Nikolai Litvinenko.

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2021-04-09

Gomphotherium is an extinct genus of proboscidean that lived in the early Miocene of North America.

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2021-04-08