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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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2023-04-04

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🦘

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2023-03-14

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]

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2023-01-31

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!

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2023-01-01

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!

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2022-11-22

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!

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2022-11-07

was a Late to Late terrestrial that terrorised animals and even humans.

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2022-10-15

A new large from the early (Arikareean NALMA) of southern and its position within Pan-Testudinidae
https://t.co/hJ3VMMYOrC

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2022-09-06

Fossilized acorns recently described from the Oligocene Yongning Formation in southern China.
https://t.co/HWEYQYU3le

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2022-09-01

Uintatherium, a rhino-sized herbivore from the Oligocene.

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2022-07-11

New paper from my labmate and adviser Ewan Fordyce: redescription of the fragmentary whale Kekenodon onamata, a late surviving archaeocete from the Oligocene of New Zealand. https://t.co/rBPyO3DdUx

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2022-06-03

Ashoroa, a wonderful little sea potato from Late Oligocene Japan

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2022-04-27

Paraceratherium one of the top oligocene mammals.

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2022-02-16

My entry for the A sunny morning on the floodplains of late Oligocene Nebraska.

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2022-01-04

Sketch I did last month of "Prosqualodon" hamiltoni interacting with Megalampris in the Oligocene ocean of New Zealand.

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2021-12-30

Happy 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!

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2021-12-25

Holotype dentary of the lacertid Pseudeumeces kyrillomethodicus from the of France
From the
Georgalis, Čerňanský and Klembara. 2021. Geodiversitas 43(9):219–293
https://t.co/TxLelwVpfB

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2021-12-23

Our latest is now available online! 'The of the Late Eocene – Early Oligocene Solent Group', by JJ Hooker. https://t.co/ruA1OQBERl

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2021-12-20

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

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2021-11-08

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 who is among the few to have illustrated it)

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2021-11-02