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The Oligocene Pacific had grey, miserable mornings too: see for yourself with my latest #paleoart post at #Patreon, where the plotopterid Copepteryx braves shoreline drizzle. See it in high-res and find loads of other palaeo content there, from $1 a month. https://t.co/dgsB1VYsyE
New online: Low, Su, Spicer, Wu, Deng, Xing & Zhou - Oligocene Limnobiophyllum (Araceae) from the central Tibetan Plateau and its evolutionary and palaeoenvironmental implications https://t.co/7XxPvDwNHC
For #FossilFriday, the oldest European ruminant! Bachitherium thraciensis from Bulgaria & Serbia (ca. 38My, Late Eocene). These fossils explain a tectonical diachronism of the faunal dispersals into Europe at the base of the Oligocene (34My vs 31My).
#weloveruminants, #sabertooth
The #Ratha #GraphicNovel is set in the early #California #Miocene, just after the #Oligocene. WIP by Dani Long and Tod Wills. We used this page to show various strange creatures of that time. Can you name them? #comic #paleofiction #xenofiction
My submission at Concurso Internacional de Ilustraçao de Dinossauros. I wanted to depict a group of Kairuku grebneffi, swimming alongside to Megalampris keyesi. A snapshot from a submerged New Zealand of the Oligocene. #kairuku #penguin #paleoart #digitalart #oligocene #ciid
and the last #SciArt for today, Arktocara yakataga, a small platanistoid from the oligocene.
#FossilFriday The delightfully bizarre teeth of the Oligocene-Miocene hippo-like mammal, Desmostylus (Fresno Co., CA, @calacademy Geology collection)
Janjucetus hunderi is an extinct whale from the Oligocene, 25 million years ago. It lacked a baleen system & instead had sharp teeth for ripping apart prey. At 3.5 metres long, it was about the same size a bottlenose dolphin.
(Credit: Gogosardina)
Baleen whales are known for their large size, but in the past some were relatively small. Here's the Oligocene baleen whale Fucaia goedertorum, its skull and mandibles are not much larger than the extant Pacific White-Sided Dolphin #FossilFriday #NHMLA #MarineMammals
#FossilFriday here's the newly described #Olympicetus avitus an Oligocene Odontocete from WA #MarineMammals #NHMLA https://t.co/TiO8d3oLzu
Introducing Sitsqwayk, a new archaic baleen whale from the Oligocene of Washington! https://t.co/fhrnd3fCzw