Miocene

While I may be drawing too much Cenozoic Beasts, meet the Phorusrhacos also called a terror bird which I have drawn in my style. It is also depicted with wing hooks.

Kinyang on some tinted paper (I have it & wanted to try out more tinted paper stuff).

Just learned about this thing today. There's two species, K. mabokoensis (the one I chose) and K. tchernovi. They were giant relatives (9 - 13 feet) of today's West African dwarf crocodile (5.9 feet max.), living in Kenya and may have hunted early human ancestors. They lived in the Miocene and may have been more terrestrial than aquatic, like the dwarf croc.

Also got a new fossil, been saving up for it for about three weeks. 7.5 inches in length. The little plastic fella didn't come with it, I've had that guy since 2017/18.

Might try to get another fossil or a BOTM figure soon, or I'll see what I get for Christmas first

I am currently on vacation on the other side of the world and went to Yehliu Geopark today. I saw fossils that are not in the museum for the first time in my life, namely sea urchin fossils.

The strange thing about these fossils was that they were just scattered across the ground at a popular viewing site. You could literally step on them without noticing. It seems that the urchins date back to the Late Oligocene or Miocene epochs. The environment that they were deposited in would probably have looked rather much the same as it does today. Pics of the coastal scenery below.

Maybe one day I will get to see a fossil of a vertebrate that is not in a museum. Then perhaps I will be more satisfied.

"we entered onto our universe, in the devonian period about 375 million years ago where we saw a tiktaalik reaching to land then go 365 mya where we saw a hynerpeton, we then skipped to the carboniferous period, 312 where we saw the first reptile which is hylonomus and the first ever synapsid called archaeothyris, then to the cisuralian part of the permian about 280 million years ago where a dimetrodon is basking in the sun, skipped to the lopingian epoch of the permian period, 251.9 mya into the great dying where the last individual of the inostrancevia alexabdri species literally died (yep, thats ino's real counterpart, don't get confused.) fast forward into the jurassic period, the golden age of the dinosaurs and also the time period where the first mammals ever appeared, a young morganucodon was chased by a large predator, fast forward to 66 million years to the end of the cretaceous. the K-T extinction happend, hitting mexico causing sudden shaking and smoke comming out blocking sunlight so plants can't even perform photosynthesis. a few months later, a few mammals, birds and other animals survived and thrived again which is the same for few surviving plants, fast forward to the miocene (ok yes, this is an epoch but i always see cenozoic epochs as....time periods yeah yeah, time periods, moving on) and ok theres a quinkana encountered a obdurodon(yeah, heard of durodon? but obdurodon is not a cetacean, it's literally a monotreme! a giant platypus to be exact) and we finally entered onto the holocene, the eopch that still continuing today, a group of crocodile are attacking a migrating herd of zebras and yeah... idk anymore and we finally entered onto the paleo isles universe, let's see what's ino doing now"

Inostrancevia:i'm getting tired of swimming i need to rest- wait.... this must be the place...*reaches ashore*

"inostrancevia then wondered again if this is really the most "peaceful" place on this planet. it's full of ice & snow with a bunch of dead trees and a few discovered footsteps that could be from a large theropod, a few bone fragments and the feeling of deep loneliness giving extreme anxiety..."

Inostrancevia:this place is freezing cold, how will creatures survive here......???

"suddenly, a tarbosaurus came"

Tarbosaurus: *growls* i just wanna sleep and h- what the heck.....???? is that a synapsid? who are you anyways?

Inostrancevia:i'm ino and i would like to use this a refuge from the "stuff" yeah, the "stuff"

Tarbosaurus:what stuff are you talking about?

Inostrancevia:you'll will not expect this "stuff" going on, you'll be suprised...

"and yep, there are some creatures who don't even know about the archosaur vs synapsid chaos, tarbosaurus is one example and that js good! because if they know, more chaos will happen..."

To Be Continued...

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Note: this is far from finished

Gryposuchus

Length: 33.3 feet

Weight:3,847 pounds

When Alive: Miocene epoch

Place Of Living When Alive: Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and the Peruvian Amazon

The bones

Phorusrhacos

Height: 7.9 feet

Length: 26 inches

Weight: 290 pounds

Place of living when alive: South America