# fossilfriday 3d ruminants paleontology punk giraffe sabertooth fossils mammals

For congratulation to our Master student who finished today (co-supervised with ). A very nice work on the morphology of the and what we can say about it (phylogeny, ontogeny, allometry).

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2020-06-26

For a species I am working with right now! Ampelomeryx is a kind of "#punk with several ossicones that lived in Europe 18Mya. It possesses ... YES a punk giraffe with sabertooth !!!

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2020-01-10

For the oldest European ruminant! Bachitherium thraciensis from Bulgaria & Serbia (ca. 38My, Late Eocene). These fossils explain a tectonical diachronism of the faunal dispersals into Europe at the base of the Oligocene (34My vs 31My).

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2019-09-06