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A pair of Paleoart reconstructions: Telmasaurus and Squalodon.
Telmasaurus was a medium sized basal Varanoid (a stem-Monitor lizard if you will) from the Late Cretaceous Flaming Cliffs of Mongolia. Squalodon is a macropredatory Platanistoid whale from the Oligocene and Miocene.

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2021-10-21

The No-Moles, Xenocranium, a relative of pangolins that lived in North America during the Oligocene and below, just a tad later (early Miocene), Necrolestes, a fossorial meridiolestian mammal from South America.

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2021-09-06

Sketchy despite appearances this oligocene mammal was not a relative of moles but pangolins, crazy no?.

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2021-09-06

Hokkaidornis resting on a beach or something in late oligocene Hokkaido :p

And No, Hokkaidornis and all plotopterids are not penguins,
They are suliformes, making them more closely to boobies and gannets





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2021-07-08

Paracertherium transouralicum.

Hidup pada masa 34-23 jt thn yg lalu (Oligocene). Genus Badak tak bercula yg sudah punah ini fossilnya ditemukan di sepanjang China dan Balkans. Beratnya 15-20 ton dgn penyebab kepunahan masih belum diketahui dgn pasti.

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2021-05-18

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

Paraceratherium bugtiense is type species of genus Paraceratherium. The fossils were found in the Chitarwata Formation of Pakistan(Oligocene). Not like its gigantic cousin,Pa. bugtiense is smaller. But it was still the largest mammals in Pakistan at that time.

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2021-04-24

Two nocturnal Palaeotherium magnum (Ancient beast) begin their search for food after a quick drink. An extinct genus of ungulate known from the Middle Eocene to Early Oligocene Epochs (Lutetian to Rupelian Ages 44.5-33.6 MYA) and discovered in France, Germany, Spain

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2021-02-20

The Eocene-Oligocene Quercy Phosphorites Formation in France for its incredible 3D preservation.

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2021-01-06

Protoceras celer (first horns) from the Oligocene to the Early Miocene 33.3—16 MYA, existing for approximately 17 MY. Discovered by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1891, from North America. Classifies as Artiodactyla, Protoceratidae, Protoceratinae. Illustration by Joschua Knuppe. 🤓🐉

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2020-12-02

Oh yes, there was actually a dinosaur rhino. I present you Rhinosaurus magnus. An extinct genus of abelitheriid rhino that existed from the early oligocene to Early Miocene of central Davidpeteropia. It was exclusively a carnivore, a unique trait within perissodactyla.

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2020-11-13

Squalodon, a large predatory dolphin from the Oligocene, may have had a taste for penguin flesh. This Kairuku is unfortunately on the menu.

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2020-10-27

Giant, powerful jaw, forelimb morphology convergence in the two major whale clades, and inferred predatory lifestyle like a killer whale! What’s not to like about Ankylorhiza tiedemani, the new Oligocene dolphin? https://t.co/pRufLjOTKm (📸 Boessenecker et al 2020)

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2020-07-10

Enter's Ankylorhiza tiedemani, a new giant macrophagous fossil dolphin!
-Current Biology, Boessenecker et al.: "Convergent evolution of swimming adaptations in modern whales revealed by a large macrophagous dolphin from the Oligocene of South Carolina

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2020-07-10

An intelligent mammal species. Notably, had a distinct, guttural language and lived in small societies. Went extinct sometime in the Oligocene.

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2020-07-05

I have been wanting to reconstruct Entelodonts for a while, so for today’s I decided to sketch this Daeodon, a huge entelodon with a 90 cm skull that lived in the Oligocene and Miocene of North America. I really enjoyed this one

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2020-05-11

Day three of my Prehistoric
Ptilophyllum muelleri, a bennettitale known from the Oligocene of Tasmania; it is rather interesting, as it greatly extends the known range of bennettitalean fossils (which prior to its discover where only known from the Mesozoic).

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2020-04-19

Meet 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘭𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘪, a tiny, newly described and the earliest known from North America. This discovery sheds light on mustelid and in the Oligocene.
Out now in our April issue! https://t.co/uq7vJMkh69

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2020-04-17

Rostaveos also is based on Pelagornis, an extinct species of bird that lived during the Chattian age of the Oligocene(25 million years ago) and it's color scheme is inspired by the Southern Giant Petrel, a species of large seabird of the southern oceans.

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2020-04-16