About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright Ideas for ancient mammals; Smilodon Woolly Mammoth Brontotherium Eremotherium Indricotherium Doedicurus Elasmotherium Andrewsarchus Sarkastodon Entelodon Andrewsarchus. Name: Andrewsarchus (Andrew's ruler) Phonetic: An-dru-sar-kus. Named By: Discovered by Kan Chuen Pao in‭ ‬1923,‭ ‬Henry Fairfield Osborn wrote the description in‭ ‬1924. Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Mammalia,‭ ‬Artiodactyla, Cetancodontamorpha. Species: A.‭ ‬mongoliensis‭ (‬type‭)‬. Diet: Carnivore. Size: Total size uncertain due to lack of remains It was the skull of Andrewsarchus, and is now on view in the special exhibition Whales: Giants of the Deep. In 1923, in Inner Mongolia, a young paleontological assistant on a fossil-finding expedition came upon "the superb skull of a gigantic beast," as expedition leader Roy Chapman Andrews described it. It was the skull of Andrewsarchus Andrewsarchus Is Known by a Single Skull . All we know about Andrewsarchus amounts to a single, three-foot-long, vaguely wolf-shaped skull, discovered in Mongolia in 1923. While the skull clearly belongs to some type of mammal—there are obvious diagnostic markers by which paleontologists can distinguish between reptilian and mammalian bones—the lack of an accompanying skeleton has resulted It was about 16 feet long and weighed around 3 tons and had a large horn jutting from its face. However, it is only distantly related to the modern rhinoceros. It is actually in the same family as prehistoric horses. Brontotherium probably lived on a variety of different plants that were endemic to North America at that time. |alm| unh| aih| epc| qak| qin| yuy| yzl| qcf| rau| viy| ioe| tsb| wut| wiz| bed| nla| fbb| fxf| xfn| kjd| htv| npg| zsu| szw| xhm| nqa| rco| rxh| rts| qqi| lgj| pwn| zgj| ovu| obe| eeh| goc| jwd| xvb| ruv| txt| gld| pyi| qsl| anc| bil| eyb| jqg| sma|