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Day 22: Platybelodon grangeri

This Ambelodontid proboscidean was a strange relative of modern elephants from the Miocene of Africa and Eurasia, famous for their shovel-like lower jaws and extended lower incisors.

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2023-03-23

HE proboscideans courtesy of

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2023-01-17

Because I felt randomly motivated I sketched all the Proboscideans from Keenan Taylor's Tales of Kaimere (even if none have appeared in the books yet)

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2023-01-13

Sloopy, a platybelodon.( An extinct genus of large proboscidean related to modern-day elephants).

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2023-01-12

📢
for the day!

Surreals: Midnight
🖤Head: Proboscidea Parviflora
🖤Right Hand: Eye

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2022-12-06

Paleovember 2022, Platybelodon! A Miocene Proboscidean with a shovel-like jaw that it used to strip bark from trees!
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2022-11-28

A molar of Gomphotherium hondurensis, a very rare proboscidean endemic to Central America and was the first vertebrate fossil i handed.

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2022-11-25

Many wild Cucubrits, gourd family, are very bitter and toxic with tough rinds to ward off most herbivores except megafauna like Mastodons who's large size allowed them to tolerate the toxins. These proboscideans became an important seed disperser for many plants up to 10,000 ya

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2022-11-02

- other bears! This idea's supported by coprolites associated with Arctodus containing Juniper seeds, isotope data showing they ate some local large browsing herbivores, and bones of sloths and young proboscideans with possible Arctodus tooth marks! (2/2)

Art by Joschua Knüppe!

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2022-10-26

To expand on this, the Mastodon lineage tends to be the WIDEST of em all. As seen by this piece also by Asier Larramendi. Zygolophodon (rendered here by , was even more wide bodied, and one of the heaviest land mammals ever as a result.

https://t.co/ivIqwKtdTZ

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2022-10-21

I am absolutely in for Genndy for making the proboscideans absolutely fucking enormous

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2022-09-10

My old (2018) reconstruction of the American mastodon, for my Proboscidea series. At the time I was very proud of the amount of detail I got, especially the eye

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2022-09-03

Paleo Fact!

Platybelodon (Flat Spear Tusk) is a proboscidean from Middle Miocene Africa, Eurasia, and North America! It's probably most well-known for its distinct long, shovel-like lower jaw! It was previously thought that it'd use this- (1/2)

Art by Tomasz Jedrzejowski!

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2022-08-29

Are Popo Proboscideans?

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2022-08-15

Current HE Proboscidean cast for World Elephant day!

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2022-08-13

The HE Quarophant, a very large proboscidean with 4 tusks of the prairie that takes advantage of the Migratory behaviours of other large herbivores to exploit recourses and decrease predation from its only viable predators the dragon western Ladon and tyrant Great Montau.

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2022-07-05

Ayt what are y’all’s top 4 favorite proboscideans
Here’s mine:

1: Philippine stegodon
2: Gomphotherium
3: Stegotretrabelodon
4: Paleoloxodon(big boi)

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2022-07-01

Once in a while I have to remind people that is a thing. A very basal, surprisingly large proboscidean with melon head, sprawled legs, browsing habits and potentially sexual dimorphism. An absolute delight to draw.

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2022-06-17