#platybelodon

[a-book-of-creatures]

Platybelodon, by Zdenek Burian.

[proflambeovt]

Paleovember 2022, Platybelodon.

Boy, the Miocene has given us just a TON of weird animals, hasn't it? Widespread throughout Africa and Asia, Platybelodon was once thought to use the shovel-like teeth on it's bottom jaw to scoop up aquatic plants in swamps. However, studies have found that, instead, this elephant relative used them to cut branches from trees.

[weirdanimal-tournament]

Round 1 Match 30

Lowland Streaked Tenrec: "Electric-type Pokémon looking ass"

Platybelodon: "look at this motherfuckers mouth dude thats insane"

[thecoffeeisblack]

A new image of something old for World Elephant Day! Platybelodon danovi, the scoop-mouthed elephant relative from the Miocene Epoch.

[newlabdakos]

Platybelodon

(temporal range: 15-10 mio. years ago)

[text from the Wikipedia article, see also link above]

Platybelodon ("flat-spear tusk") is an extinct genus of large herbivorous proboscidean mammals related to modern-day elephants, placed in the "shovel tusker" family Amebelodontidae. Species lived during the middle Miocene Epoch in Africa, Asia and the Caucasus.

[lutramatrica]

[wjbminecraft]

If I made one of those Villager/Illager redesign resource packs that actually alter/replace the models, I'd turn Ravagers into Platybelodon.

[godzilla-and-aang-monsters]

Mokele Mbembe

Altura: 200 metros

Longitud: 550 metros

Peso: 135,000 toneladas

Primer Avistamiento: Selva del Congo [Tierra: Teratoverso]

Controles: Tierra Control [Cola de latigo y Camuflaje] Agua Control [Veneno dermico]

Guarida: Pantano Likouala [Tierra:Teratoverso] Pantano Brumoso [Avatarverso]

Aspecto: Apatosaurus + Platybelodon

Aliados:

Humanos: Aang, Katara, Soka, Iroh, Zuko

Kaijus y otras bestias: Anguirus, Baragon, Behemoth, Mothra, Rodan, Godzilla

Enemigos:

Humanos: Ozai y Azula

Kaijus y otras bestias: King Ghidorah

[ivelte]

Day 18 of the GenXtober (an inktober based around creating fakemon)

Theme : Platybelodon

[ormspryde]

Drawing for today's Pagan December prompt, 'death'. I've been wanting to (attempt to) draw a platybelodon skull forever now, so this was my excuse.

[ID: A digital drawing of the skull of a platybelodon, an extinct proboscidean, depicted in strokes of black on a grey background. Platybelodon's lower jaw is far longer than its upper jaw, ending in a scooplike blade formed from the lower teeth. /ID]

[artemholubievgolubev]

One of the most exotic ancient relatives of elephants, it had spade-shaped tusks with which it could dig through swampy soil for roots, strip bark from trees, or mow down tough vegetation.

He lived in East Africa and Asia (20 - 15 million years ago) with warm climates near rivers, swamps and other bodies of water.

This exclusive and unrepeatable painting can be purchased here:

[thecoffeeisblack]

Final for Platybelodon grangeri. 

P. grangeri was an extinct member of the Proboscidea order that lived during the Miocene Epoch, 15 to 10 million years ago; they were a prehistoric relative to modern day elephants. Members of their genus have been found in across parts of Africa, Asia, and the Caucasus.

Their distinctive lower teeth were once thought to have been used like shovels, allowing the animal to scoop large amounts of aquatic plants into it's mouth, but recent analysis of microscopic damage shows patterns closer to those of animals that use their teeth to strip bark from trees or cut tougher terrestrial plants. It's thought they used their trunks to hold such plants in place while using their teeth as a kind of built in scythe.

[myplasticadversary]

Good night, I'm gonna think about these guys

[femme-malewife]

It’s amazing how animals that once roamed the earth several million years ago can easily look like something right out of a fantasy...

[the-overthinktank]

People go nuts over heliocoprion as a weird extinct shark but i think we should spend more time appreciating that there is a FAR weirder extant shark. It's hammerheads. Have you looked at one recently?? If they were only around as fossils people would never shut up about them

truly the platybelodon of sharks