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#FossilFriday 🇦🇷🦷Nice right upper jaw of a BIG #astrapothere - a two-ton, tusked, trunked South American endemic #mammal, something between a #tapir and a #hippo. This one is ~25 million years old. More info in this blog post from a few years ago: https://t.co/Lo1HWprDLx
My #astrapothere and #sparassodont #TetZoo articles are no longer easily findable or being used, so will revamp and republish asap.
And then there are the #mammals. Borhyaena (hey @SerpenIllus), the #astrapothere Granastrapotherium (bonus #Phorusrhacos in shot too), the notoungulate Nesodon and more... #fossilmammals
#FossilFriday 🦷 Lower tooth of the #astrapothere Antarctodon from... Antarctica! Yes, there were land #mammals there until ~ 35 million yrs. ago. For details, hear a talk on Zoom TODAY by @Javier_N_Gelfo, 4 pm EDT (17 hrs in #Argentina). @Apaleontologica https://t.co/rW2w6k7y39
#FossilFriday 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇵🇪🇨🇴A taste of S. American #ungulate diversity - from the intro article to our #SANU Gondwanan Perspectives @ameghiniana issue, published yesterday! Articles by @mcgratherium, @Javier_N_Gelfo, et al. #Notoungulate #Litoptern #Astrapothere https://t.co/Nwj45pSecq
#FossilFriday Holotype lower jaw of the #astrapothere 🇺🇾Uruguaytherium - probably ~25 million years old (#Oligocene) but provenance uncertain. This specimen will never be misidentified; its name is written on its hefty last molar! #teeth #SANUngulate https://t.co/Lo1HWprDLx
#FossilFriday Holotype lower jaw of the early #astrapothere Trigonostylops gegenbauri from the late Eocene of #Argentina, showing its #pig-like lower canine #tusks. This native South American #ungulate probably also had a short trunk (proboscis). #HornedArmadillos @VelizarSim
#FossilFriday Gigantic #astrapothere tusk from my recent visit to the @sgcol museum in Bogotá, Colombia + astrapothere reconstructions from their charming wall mural and diorama of the incomparable middle #Miocene site of La Venta. Thanks for a great visit! #HornedArmadillos
#FossilFriday Holotype lower jaw of Trigonostylops gegenbauri, an Eocene #astrapothere from southern Argentina. This was a rather small (peccary-sized) astrapothere; the big ones were the size of rhinos! Some or perhaps all had a proboscis or short trunk. @museodelaplata
#FossilFriday Super-sized lower canine tusk of an #astrapothere, taken during a vertebrate paleontology lab @unlp thanks to @FulbrightPrgrm. Don't know what an astrapothere is? Check out my most recent #RaftingMonkey blog! https://t.co/Lo1HWpJfa7
Holotype tooth of the small Antarctic #astrapothere Antarctodon, one of the few endemic South American ungulates found outside that continent. Check out my latest blog for more on #Eocene #mammals from #Antarctica. #FossilFriday @museodelaplata https://t.co/uErwfOQecv
#FossilFriday Trio of #Miocene endemic S. American ungulates from Lonquimay, Chile: #notoungulate (Nesodon), #litoptern, #astrapothere
Ear anatomy of Paleogene Eoastrapostylops suggests it is a basal meridiungulate rather than an #astrapothere (!) https://t.co/ivIQrotBX4
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