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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)
- 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!
I am absolutely in for Genndy for making the proboscideans absolutely fucking enormous
Ayt what are y’all’s top 4 favorite proboscideans
Here’s mine:
1: Philippine stegodon
2: Gomphotherium
3: Stegotretrabelodon
4: Paleoloxodon(big boi)
Today we had a very special #paleostream! We looked into the anatomy, ecology and phylogeny of #Numidotherium, one of the earliest and WEIRDEST proboscideans ever! It's a roughly tapir sized animal from the Eocene of Algeria, from the El Kohol formation. (1/many)
The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), because I want proboscideans living where I am.
Art of a mammoth in their winter coat by @paleobyliam. Range map via Wikimedia Commons. https://t.co/yMvZccurIJ
@matthewcobb @morethanadodo There are quite a few other animals with trunks (trunks = extended upper lip + snoot). And not all elephants (proboscideans) had trunks, the earliest didn't. But certainly elephants really went to town with their sniffers! 🐘 (pics: Wikipedia/dinopedia)
Here are my top 4 extinct proboscideans, challenge by @Gamarraptor
- Stegoterabelodon syrticus
- Deinotherium bozasi
- Palaeoloxodon namadicus
- Gomphotherium angustidens
(love em all despite the rankings)
Some extinct proboscideans size comparison.
(Credit: PrehistoryByLiam on deviantart)
#PortfolioDay
Hi, I’m Cameron and I’m an artist that paints mostly extinct and extant organisms ( primarily on the largest of animals such as non-avian dinosaurs, proboscideans, and cetaceans )
My Instagram account is here: https://t.co/88nLoD7miU
WIP of a Monty plate for Truncated! I’m planning on doing a few of these at 18x24 for other proboscideans. Within, I tried a few new rendering styles in illustrator and photoshop.
(Corrections/critiques welcome)
#mammoth #paleoart #fossilfracas
Time for another Fossil Fracas related update for Truncated:
My Long Wall of Proboscideans is full of all sorts of bizarre characters. Eventually I’m planning on characterizing every species.
#characters #elephants #paleoart #cartoons #proboscideantwitter
Working on a few new things involving local proboscideans... With an American Mastodon to start.
#paleoart #sciart #mastodon #proboscideantwitter
There's a lot of #proboscideans to cover. So far I've gotten about 20 characters done, very few of which you could make out in this pile.
#fossilfracas #cartoon #proboscideantwitter #paleoart
WIP (Work In Progress): Fossil Fracas related elephants may be my most prolific work, but I've also been working on more realistic renders of elephants. Pictured here, a prototype poster layout for my Forest Elephant.
#sciart #elephants #africanelephant #proboscideans
Proboscideans have a long evolutionary history. They first appear around 60 million years ago in North Africa and were quite small. By ~37 million years ago, proboscideans like the hippo-like Moeritherium which didn’t have a trunk or tusks had evolved #WorldElephantDay