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Synonyms. [1] Aculeodens Weitzel, 1949. Dormaalius Quinet, 1964. Macrocranion is a genus of extinct mammal from the Eocene epoch of Europe and North America. [2] Exceptional fossils have has been found in the Messel Pit of Germany. [3] Macrocranion species are often described as forest-floor predators, about the size of small squirrels but with ...
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Kogaionidae is a family of fossil mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata.Representatives are known from the Upper Cretaceous and the Paleocene of Europe. [2] [3] Having started as island endemics on Hateg Island during the Upper Cretaceous, where they were in fact the dominant mammal group and diverged into rather unique ecological niches, they expanded across Europe in the ...
Alpine long-eared bat, Plecotus macrobullarisNT (mountains of southern Europe) Sardinian long-eared bat, Plecotus sardusCR (Sardinia) Canary long-eared bat, Plecotus teneriffaeCR (Canary Islands in Africa - Spain) and: [ n 1 ] Gaisler's long-eared bat, Plecotus gaisleri[ 2 ]EN (Malta, Italy) Barbastelle, Barbastella barbastellusVU.
Eomanis ("dawn pangolin") is the earliest known true (and scaled) pangolin from extinct family Eomanidae (and extinct superfamily Eomanoidea) within suborder Eupholidota. It lived during the Eocene in Europe. [4] Eomanis fossils found in the Messel Pit in Germany are very similar in size and anatomy to living pangolins of the genus Manis ...
Kopidodon is a genus of extinct squirrel -like mammals belonging to the order Cimolesta. Kopidodon was one of the largest tree-dwelling mammals known from Eocene Europe: growing 115 centimeters long (most of that length is tail). This mammal sported large canine teeth, probably for defense, since its molars were adapted for chewing plants, not ...
Ice Age Giants is a British television documentary series created and produced by BBC Natural History Unit, first shown in the UK on BBC Two and BBC Two HD on 19 May 2013. . The series steps back to 20,000 years in time and follows the trail of the prehistoric mammals in the ice age on North America and European region that lived through it to life by using the latest scientific knowledge and ...
Europolemur klatti was a medium to large size adapiformes primate that lived on the continent of Europe from the middle to early Eocene. One possible relative to this species is Margarita stevensi, whose type specimen is about the size of a white-footed sportive lemur ( Lepilemur leucopus ). [1] Characteristic of most adapines are the reduced ...