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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)
With origins stretching as far back as the early Eocene, yet another abberant group of dinosaurs can be found in Sister Earth.
The type genus, Psittacocetus is the largest recorded psittacocetid so far, with elder individuals surpassing the forty foot mark and—
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