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Tapocyon robustus
Tapocyon robustus (peterson, 1919)MammaliaCarnivoramorphaMiacidae EoceneUinta Fm (Uintan)Utah, USLength: 1 mOriginally described from fragmentary materials from Utah, this primitive carnivore is better...
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Protitanops curryi
Protitanops curryiStock, 1936MammaliaPerissodactylaBrontotheridaeBrontotherinae Late EoceneTitus Canyon Fm (Chadronian)California, USHeight: 2 mProtitanops is a brontothere which fossils were found in...
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Californosaurus perrini
Californosaurus perrini (Merriam, 1902) Kuhn, 1934IchthyopterygiaShastasauriaToretocnemidae Late TriassicHosselkus Fm (Carnian)California, USLength: 3 mThis dolphin-size ichthyosaur discovered in the...
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Wahlisaurus massarae
Wahlisaurus massarae Lomax, 2016IchthyopterygiaParvipelviaNeoichthyosauriaLeptonectidae Early Jurassic? Scunthorpe Mudstone Fm (Hettangian)England, UKLength: 1.5 mThis small ichthyosaur is known from a...
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Plotosaurus bennisovi
Plotosaurus bennisovi (Camp, 1942)SquamataScleroglossaMosasauridaeMosasaurinae Late CretaceousMoreno Fm (Late Maastrichtian)California, USLength: 9 mThis Californian mosasaur, the fossils of which...
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Thylacosmilus atrox
Thylacosmilus atrox Riggs, 1933MammaliaMetatheriaSparassodontaThylacosmilidae MioceneItuzaingo Fm (Late Miocene)Entre Rios, ArgentinaLength:1.2 mThe South American Thylacosmilus belongs to a group...
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Nothrotheriops shastensis
Nothrotheriops shastensis Sinclair, 1905MammaliaXenarthraPilosaNothrotheriidaeLate PleistoceneWestern North AmericaLength: 2.75 mThe Shasta Ground Sloth is the most common Ground Slot found in the La...
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Zalambdalestes lechei
Zalambdalestes lechei Gregory & Simpson, 1926MammaliaEutheriaZalambdalestidae Late CretaceousBayn Dzak Mbr, Djadokhta Fm (Late Campanian)Omnogov, MongoliaLength: 20 cmThis shrew like mammal from...
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Menoceras barbouri
Menoceras barbouri (Wood, 1964)MammaliaPerissodactylaRhinocerotidae MioceneAlachua Fm (Hemingfordian)Florida Length: 1.5 mThis cursorial rhinoceros with two horns side by side probably lived in herds...
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Hyaenodon horridus
Hyaenodon horridus Leidy, 1853Mammalia"Creodonta"HyaenodontaHyaenodontidae Early OligoceneWhite River Fm (Orellan)ColoradoLength: 2.5 mHyaenodon was a successful top predator that lived from the Late...
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Gomphotaria pugnax
Gomphotaria pugnax Barnes & Rashke, 1991MammaliaCarnivoraOdobenidaeDusignathinaeLate MioceneCapistrano Fm (Messinian)CaliforniaLength: 3 mThis prehistoric shell eating walrus from the Late Miocene...
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Merychippus insignis
Merychippus insignis (Leidy, 1856)MammaliaPerissodactylaEquidaeEquinae Middle MioceneFort Randall Fm (Barstovian)South DakotaHeight: 90 cm at the shoulderThe North American Merychippus is the first...
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Pholidocercus hassiacus
Pholidocercus hassiacus von Koenigswald & Storch, 1983MammaliaEutipotyphlaAmphilemuridae Middle EoceneMessel Pit (Lutetian)GermanyLength: 40 cmThis peculiar relative of the modern hedgehog, the...
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Brachiosaurus altithorax
Brachiosaurus altithorax Riggs, 1903DinosauriaSaurischiaSauropodomorphaSauropodaMacronariaTitanosauriformesBrachiosauridae Late JurassicMorrison Fm (Kimmeridgian)ColoradoLength: 20 mOne of the most...
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Prolibytherium magnieri
Prolibytherium magnieri Arambourg, 1961MammaliaArtiodactyla? Climacoceratidae Early MioceneGebel Zelten (Burdigalian)LibyaLength: 1.8 mThe males of this even-toed ungulate had an extraordinary...
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Embolotherium andrewsi
Embolotherium andrewsi Osborn, 1929MammaliaPerissodactylaBrontotheriidae Late EoceneUlan Gocho FmNei Mongol, ChinaHeight: 2 mThe bizarre large appendage on the snout of this brontothere was fragile and...
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Elasmotherium sibiricum
Elasmotherium sibiricum Fisher, 1808MammaliaPerissodactylaCeratomorphaRhinocerotoideaRhinocerotidaeLate PleistoceneSiberia, RussiaHeight: 2 mThis Eurasian rhinoceros had a single horn on the top of...
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Eucladoceros dicranios
Eucladoceros dicranios (Nesti, 1841) Falconer, 1868MammaliaArtiodactylaCervidaeCervinae Early PleistoceneUpper Valdarno (Late Villafranchian) ItalyHeight: 1.8 mThe males of this large prehistoric deer...
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Megaloceros giganteus
Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach, 1799) MammaliaArtiodactylaCervidaeCervinae Middle Pleistocene to Early HoloceneEurasiaHeight: 2 mThe Irish Elk is one of the largest deer to have ever lived. It was...
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Hallucigenia sparsa
Hallucigenia sparsa Conway Morris, 1977OnychophoraHallucigeniidae Middle CambrianBurgess ShaleBritish Columbia, CanadaWhen it was first described in 1977, Hallucigenia has been reconstructed...
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