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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 ❤️🔥✍🏼
Diving with Carcharhinus balochensis, a large requiem shark from the Eocene and Oligocene! This shark witnessed the beginnings of cetacean evolution and diversification and roamed coastal waters of the eastern Tethys Sea #shark #divingwithseamonsters
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
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
#Megacerops was a large rhino-like horse-ancestor alive during the Eocene. Most art of the Megacerops make them very rhinolike, so i wanted to embrace the more horse like quality of fur, got a little bit bison-like, but im into it. #Paleoart
Artist:yuno_(p2eocene)
Character:Dragoon (Selen Tatsuki), Selen Tatsuki
Media:Nijisanji, Nijisanji En
https://t.co/aapBewXwEC
Happy Eocene Easter Everyone, both Reptile & Mammalian!!! Here's a Private commission from 2006,complete with the Pertwee ref' I wanted to use on my Carnival of Monsters VHS cover.
For this #FossilFriday a beautiful #skeleton of the #snake #Eoconstrictor fischeri from the #Eocene of #Messel, Germany
Collections of @Senckenberg @geobiodiversity
From the #OpenAccess
Georgalis, Rabi, Smith 2021. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 140:18
https://t.co/FFcgPGnbZz
If I had a nickle for every time South America (aka the best continent ever) had a giant, quadrupedal, apex predator crocodile, then I'd have two nickles, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
First Triassic, then Eocene.
(art by @ChrisDPiazza and @HodariNundu)
Saliendo del horno: "#Crocodyliformes and #Testudines from the #Eocene of the Duero Basin (northwestern Spain): an update of their diversity and stratigraphic context"
https://t.co/kDvVX0LvpQ
Poniendo al día los #cocodrilos y #tortugas del #Eoceno de la Cuenca del #Duero
Eomanis is the earliest known pangolin, which lived in Europe during the Middle Eocene. It was 50 cm long.
(Credit @paleofan)