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Andrewsarchus (/ ˌ æ n d r uː ˈ s ɑːr k ə s /), meaning "Andrews' ruler", is an extinct genus of artiodactyl that lived during the Middle Eocene in what is now China. The genus was first described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1924 with the type species A. mongoliensis based on a largely complete cranium.
Gigantopithecus (/ d ʒ aɪ ˌ ɡ æ n t oʊ p ɪ ˈ θ i k ə s, ˈ p ɪ θ ɪ k ə s, d ʒ ɪ-/ jy-gan-toh-pih-THEE-kəs, -PITH-ih-kəs, jih-; [2] lit. ' giant ape ') is an extinct genus of ape that lived in southern China from 2 million to approximately 300,000 to 200,000 years ago during the Early to Middle Pleistocene, represented by one species, Gigantopithecus blacki. [3]
Rank Common name Scientific name Family Image Average mass (kg) Maximum mass (kg) Average length (m) Maximum length (m) Shoulder height (m) Native range
The same adaptations useful for processing tough plant material would be equally useful for carrion and bones, which could have been major components of the diet for some entelodonts. [2] Unlike pigs, the youngest juvenile entelodonts had a full set of 32 deciduous teeth. The teeth were sharp, slender, and semi-serrated, less suitable for ...
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Various carnivorans, with feliforms to the left, and caniforms to the right. Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh. Members of this order are called carnivorans, or colloquially carnivores, though the term more properly refers to any meat-eating organisms, and some carnivoran species are omnivores or herbivores.
Daeodon and similar in size and morphology Paraentelodon [69] were the largest-known entelodonts that ever lived, at 3.7 m (12 ft) long and 1.77 m (5.8 ft) high at the shoulder. [70] The huge Andrewsarchus from the Eocene of Inner Mongolia had a skull about 83.4 cm (32.8 in) long [71] though the taxonomy of this genus is disputed. [72] [73]
The largest dinosaurs, and the largest animals to ever live on land, were the plant-eating, long-necked Sauropoda. The tallest and heaviest sauropod known from a complete skeleton is a specimen of an immature Giraffatitan discovered in Tanzania between 1907 and 1912, now mounted in the Museum für Naturkunde of Berlin. It is 12–13.27 m (39.4 ...