Post by dinosauria101 on Aug 22, 2019 10:20:25 GMT 5
Naumann's Elephant - Palaeoloxodon naumanni
Palaeoloxodon naumanni, occasionally called Naumann's elephant, is an extinct species belonging to the genus Palaeoloxodon that lived in Southern Japan in the late Pleistocene about 500,000 to 15,000 years ago. Palaeoloxodon naumanni is closely related to the modern Asian Elephant, Elephas maximus[citation needed]. Similar to mammoths P. naumanni had a subcutaneous fat layer and long fur as an adaption to a cold environment. The species had a pair of long twisted tusks and a bulge on the head. These tusks grew more than 2.4 m in length, 20 cm in diameter. It was a little smaller than Asian elephants averaging 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) to 3 metres (9.8 ft) in shoulder height and weighing from 1.9 to 3.6 tons. It lived in forest which mixed subarctic conifers and cool-temperate deciduous trees.
Tarchia gigantea
Tarchia (meaning "brainy one") is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Mongolia. It is currently the geologically youngest known of all the Asian ankylosaurid dinosaurs and is represented by five or more specimens, including two complete skulls and one nearly complete postcranial skeleton. It was discovered in the Upper Cretaceous (possibly Campanian-Maastrichtian) Barun Goyot Formation (previously known as the 'Lower Nemegt Beds') of the Nemegt Basin of Mongolia. It had a bony tail club, like many ankylosaurids. Tarchia is one of the largest known Asian ankylosaurs, with an estimated body length of 8.5 metres (27.9 ft), a skull length of 40 centimetres (16 in), and skull width of 45 centimetres (18 in). Tarchia may have weighed as much as 5 tonnes. Named for its massive skull (Mongolian tarkhi meaning 'brain' and Latin ia), Tarchia currently includes only the type species, T. gigantea. The rocks in which they were found likely represent eolian dunes and interdune environments, with small intermittent lakes and seasonal streams. Hence, we know that Tarchia was a desert animal. The morphology of cranial sculpturing seen in Tarchia, an assortment of bulbous polygons, is reminiscent of that of Saichania chulsanensis, another ankylosaurid from the Barun Goyot Formation.
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Palaeoloxodon naumanni, occasionally called Naumann's elephant, is an extinct species belonging to the genus Palaeoloxodon that lived in Southern Japan in the late Pleistocene about 500,000 to 15,000 years ago. Palaeoloxodon naumanni is closely related to the modern Asian Elephant, Elephas maximus[citation needed]. Similar to mammoths P. naumanni had a subcutaneous fat layer and long fur as an adaption to a cold environment. The species had a pair of long twisted tusks and a bulge on the head. These tusks grew more than 2.4 m in length, 20 cm in diameter. It was a little smaller than Asian elephants averaging 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) to 3 metres (9.8 ft) in shoulder height and weighing from 1.9 to 3.6 tons. It lived in forest which mixed subarctic conifers and cool-temperate deciduous trees.
Tarchia gigantea
Tarchia (meaning "brainy one") is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Mongolia. It is currently the geologically youngest known of all the Asian ankylosaurid dinosaurs and is represented by five or more specimens, including two complete skulls and one nearly complete postcranial skeleton. It was discovered in the Upper Cretaceous (possibly Campanian-Maastrichtian) Barun Goyot Formation (previously known as the 'Lower Nemegt Beds') of the Nemegt Basin of Mongolia. It had a bony tail club, like many ankylosaurids. Tarchia is one of the largest known Asian ankylosaurs, with an estimated body length of 8.5 metres (27.9 ft), a skull length of 40 centimetres (16 in), and skull width of 45 centimetres (18 in). Tarchia may have weighed as much as 5 tonnes. Named for its massive skull (Mongolian tarkhi meaning 'brain' and Latin ia), Tarchia currently includes only the type species, T. gigantea. The rocks in which they were found likely represent eolian dunes and interdune environments, with small intermittent lakes and seasonal streams. Hence, we know that Tarchia was a desert animal. The morphology of cranial sculpturing seen in Tarchia, an assortment of bulbous polygons, is reminiscent of that of Saichania chulsanensis, another ankylosaurid from the Barun Goyot Formation.
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