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Daeodon ~ dreadful teeth 🦷🐗
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It’s a very extreme pose…but it’s been fun to play around with it!
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#art #procreate #design #drawing #dinosaur #naturalhistory #daeodon #entelodont #digitalart #illustration #paleoart #palaeontology #hellpig #oligocene #walkingwithbeasts
#marchofthemammals2023 Day 13: Ekaltadelta ima
This funny lil marsupial may have once lived in the Oligocene-Miocene in Australia, but they actually have a surviving relative called the Musky Rat Kangaroo🦘
A quirky story about how a fossil of an extinct Oligocene salamander (Andrias scheuchzeri), was mistaken to as human remains of a victim of the Biblical flood 🧵
[art by Zdeněk Burian]
Was also the first to doodle Dzavui, a prehistoric hedgehog from Oligocene Mexico, named after a god of rain! Yeah yeah this one was cool too!
Paleo Fact!
Dzungariotherium (Dzungaria Beast) is a paracerathere from Oligocene China! It's one of the largest known land mammals to date! Compared to fellow large paracerathere, Paraceratherium, its teeth and head were actually proportionally larger, - (1/2)
Art by Yu Chen!
Paleo Fact!
Entelodon (Perfect Teeth) is an entelodont from Early Oligocene Eurasia! It's the type genus of the family Entelodontidae, which is more commonly known as the "Hell Pigs!" While they're more closely related to hippos and cetaceans- (1/2)
Art by Joschua Knüppe!
#Quinkana was a Late #Oligocene to Late #Pleistocene terrestrial #crocodilian that terrorised #Australian animals and even humans. #paleoart #paleontology #crocodile
A new large #tortoise from the early #Oligocene (Arikareean NALMA) of #Oaxaca, southern #Mexico and its #phylogenetic position within Pan-Testudinidae
https://t.co/hJ3VMMYOrC
Fossilized acorns recently described from the Oligocene Yongning Formation in southern China.
https://t.co/HWEYQYU3le
#Paleontology
Ashoroa, a wonderful little sea potato from Late Oligocene Japan
My entry for the #Agatecontest! A sunny morning on the floodplains of late Oligocene Nebraska.
#paleoart
Sketch I did last month of "Prosqualodon" hamiltoni interacting with Megalampris in the Oligocene ocean of New Zealand.
Happy #FossilFriday and a very Merycochoerus/Merychyus/Merycoidodon to you! Mery means "ruminant like" in latin so the majority of oreodont names are repetitive and also extremely seasonally appropriate! #Fossils #Paleontology #Science #Geology #Oligocene #Cenozoic #Oreodont
Holotype dentary of the lacertid #lizard Pseudeumeces kyrillomethodicus from the #Oligocene of France
From the #OpenAccess
Georgalis, Čerňanský and Klembara. 2021. Geodiversitas 43(9):219–293
https://t.co/TxLelwVpfB
#Fossil #reptile #3DModel
Our latest #monograph is now available online! 'The #mammals of the Late Eocene – Early Oligocene Solent Group', by JJ Hooker. #palaeontology https://t.co/ruA1OQBERl
Threw together quick restoration of the European Oligocene hummingbird Eurotrochilus inexpectatus for a talk, speculative plumage mostly based off extant basal hummingbirds (genera Florisuga and Topaza)
Pic of fossil from Louchart 2008
Croctober is over but that's not stopping me, today with Astorgosuchus, a potentially giant, basal crocodyloid from Oligocene Pakistan that may have fed on Paraceratherium (art by @HodariNundu who is among the few to have illustrated it)
Big rhino!!
Paraceratherium transouralicum.
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#Paraceratherium #megafauna #paleoart #perissodactyla #digitalart #sizecomparation #oligocene #Mongolia #rhino #beast #mammal #prehistoricmammal
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.