In Depth Yoshi is a genus of metailurine sabre-toothed cat that lived in Eastern Europe during the late Miocene. Yoshi seems to have been adapted to be smaller light weight predators relying upon speed and agility to capture prey. Further Reading - A New Felid from the Late Miocene of the Balkans and the Contents … Read more
In Depth Along with Daeodon from North America and Paraentelodon from Asia, Entelodon is one of the largest currently known entelodonts, Eocene to Miocene era mammals that are interpreted as pig-like although their exact relationship to pigs is still strongly debated. The broad distribution of Entelodon species across Eurasia reveal that it was a successful … Read more
In Depth Peltephilus was an extinct relative of today’s armadillos, though its large size makes it comparable to the largest of today’s species such as the giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus) which has a combined head and tail length of one hundred and fifty centimetres (one hundred for the body and fifty for the tail). The … Read more
In Depth Lestobradys is a genus of ground sloth that lived in South America during the Miocene. Further Reading - A new genus and species of Mylodontidae (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from the late Miocene of Southern Uruguay, with comments on the systematics of Mylodontinae. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(3):899-910. - A. Rinderknecht, E. Bostelmann, D. … Read more
In Depth Eoazara is a genus of elasmotherine rhino that lived in North Africa during the Miocene. Further reading - A new late Miocene elasmotheriine rhinoceros from Morocco. - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 66. - D. Geraads & S. Zouhri -2021.
In Depth Although certainly not the only North American camel known to us, Camelops seems to have been the last to go extinct. The theories as to why this happened are controversial but in the case of Camelops human hunting was certainly a contributing factor since evidence of butchery (the processing of a carcass for … Read more
In Depth Further Reading – Eremotherium laurillardi: the Panamerican late Pleistocene megatheriid sloth. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. – C. Cartelle & G. De Iuliis – 1995. – Eremotherium sefvei nov. sp. (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Megatheriidae) from the Pleistocene of Ulloma, Bolivia. – Geobios 30(3):453-461. – G. De Iuliis and P. A. Saint-Andre – 1997. – A … Read more
In Depth Further Reading – Laetoli: a Pliocene Site in Northern Tanzania. – Clarendon Press, Oxford, Great Britain – M. D. Leakey & J. M. Harris – 1987. – Basicranial anatomy of the giant viverrid from ‘E’ Quarry, Langebaanweg, South Africa. Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic Mammals. – Tributes to the Career of C. … Read more
In Depth Paracimexomys is a genus of multituberculatan mammal that lived in North America during the late Cretaceous. Further Reading - A study of Mammalia and geology across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Garfield County, Montana. - University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 122:1-286. - J. D. Archibald - 1982. - Multituberculate mammals from near … Read more
In Depth Kapi is a genus of gibbon that lived in India during the Miocene. Further reading New Middle Miocene Ape (Primates: Hylobatidae) from Ramnagar, India fills major gaps in the hominoid fossil record. - Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 287 (1934). - Christopher C. Gilbert, Alejandra Ortiz, Kelsey D. Pugh, Christopher J. Campisano, … Read more