# paleoart paleontology sciart scientificillustration fossils mammoth elephant namethatproboscidean worldelephantday proboscideantwitter

Very rough first attempt at a size chart here, I pretty much eyeballed it based on skeletals, etc. Mostly wanted to see what they all looked like together!

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2018-12-19

My FINAL proboscidean is Mammuthus primigenius, aka the woolly mammoth. This is one of the most popular of extinct organisms, serving as the iconic "mascot" to the Cenozoic. It is characterized by its instantly recognizable shaggy coat and long, strongly-curving tusks.

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2018-12-17

I set out to reconstruct the basal proboscidean Barytherium, but ended up channeling my inner and accidentally made a realistic Drowzee

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2018-11-26

Gomphotherium, a proboscidean from the Miocene and Pleistocene of Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. Unlike its distant modern relatives, Gomphotherium had 4 tusks: 2 longer ones on the upper jaw, and two shorter, shovel-like ones on the lower jaw.

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2018-11-25

You vs the proboscidean she tells you not to worry about

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2018-11-22

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

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2017-12-03

Proboscidea, el orden al que pertenecen los elefantes

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2015-03-07