Merry Christmas fellow hunters. Tooth in matrix found on the James near Richmond. Clam fossil attached. Approx 5-20 million years old. Miocene Epoch.
Livyatan melvillei, one of the most fearsome apex predators of the Miocene oceans. This raptorial sperm whale may have competed with Megalodon.
The Ashfall Fossil Beds in Nebraska has thousands of stunningly preserved Miocene animals from a previous Yellowstone hotspot eruption.
๐ฅ Fossilized Otodus Megalodon Shark Tooth (Miocene - Jasper County, SC)
Recently a Miocene aged lagerstรคtte was found in Australia. This spider fossil is just one of many well preserved fossils from the site
It was a great year in the central Virginia Miocene! Can't wait to see what 2022 uncovers. Good luck to all the hunters this year! Happy New Year!
๐ฅ Comparison of modern day Great White tooth vs Miocene Great White tooth vs Megalodon tooth in ascending order
How the Elephant Got Its Trunk. Rimasuchus bites the trunk of Mammutid Zygolophodon. Early Miocene Egypt.
It was a great year in the central Virginia Miocene! Can't wait to see what 2022 uncovers. Good luck to all the hunters this year! Happy New Year!
Megalodon tooth vs Miocene Great White and modern day Great White Shark tooth
Fossilized Otodus Megalodon Shark Tooth (Miocene - Jasper County, SC)
the largest crocodile ever existed. The Late Miocene period - lasted from 11.63 Ma (million years ago) to 5.333 Ma. They said it could exert a pressure up to 11.5 tonnes. That is 20 times the strength of a white sharkโs bite.
Fossilized Otodus Megalodon Tooth (Miocene - Jasper County, SC)
Granastrapotherium snorki, a long-tusked, long-trunked astrapotheriid belonging to the Middle Miocene-aged La Venta fauna of Colombia. Art by Roman Uchytel.
Fossils of the giant aquatic sloth, Thalassocnus natans (specimen MNHN.F.SAS734), from the Late Miocene coast of Peru.
A beached Megalodon (Otodus megalodon) soon attracts a large flock of birds including some Miocene Peruvian Condors (Perugyps diazi). Credit goes to Gabriel Ugueto.
Somewhere during the Middle Miocene in northern South America. A female Hilarcotherium lies dead after succumbing to illness. The smell has attracted a group of Barinasuchus who have no issue with sharing the massive carcass.
A beached Megalodon (Otodus megalodon) soon attracts a large flock of birds including some Miocene Peruvian Condors (Perugyps diazi). Credit goes to Gabriel Ugueto.
Tooth ID Help central FL Miocene reddit.com/gallery/rhbar2
It was a great year in the central Virginia Miocene! Can't wait to see what 2022 uncovers. Good luck to all the hunters this year! Happy New Year!
A size comparison of Caiman wannlangstoni from the Miocene of northwestern South America and Steve Irwin by Armin Reindl.
It was a great year in the central Virginia Miocene! Can't wait to see what 2022 uncovers. Good luck to all the hunters this year! Happy New Year!
Rimasuchus lloydi a big Miocene crocodile that got over 7 m/23 ft reddit.com/gallery/rukt8x
Cetotherium riabinini by Jaime Bran on Twitter. A tiny baleen whale that formerly inhabited the now inland Paratethys sea during the Miocene.
Elasmotherium is an extinct genus of large rhinoceros endemic to Eurasia during Late Miocene through Pleistocene, existing at least as late as 39000 years ago in Late Pleistocene.
Megalodon jaws compared with a great white shark with Dr. Jeremiah Clifford, who specializes in fossil reconstruction, for size comparison - Megalodon was the largest shark to ever live and was from the Miocene era - thankfully millions of years ago
A perfectly preserved skull of Olsenโs Alligator (Alligator olseni) from the early Miocene of Florida.
Merry Christmas fellow hunters. Tooth in matrix found on the James near Richmond. Clam fossil attached. Approx 5-20 million years old. Miocene Epoch.
Danomuraโs Sperm Whale (Kogia danomurai) from the Late Miocene of Peru by Jaime Bran on Twitter.
Thalassocnus natans was a species of aquatic sloth from the Late Miocene of Peru. reddit.com/gallery/rsffvm
A Lagerstรคtte from Australia provides insight into the nature of Miocene mesic ecosystems science.org/doi/10.1126/sโฆ
The new study examined the status of Antarctic ice sheets during the Early Miocene, around 18-16 million years ago, which experienced both warm and cold periods. During warmer periods, sea level rose by up to 60 metres โ the equivalent of melting all the ice currently on the Antarctic continent. imperial.ac.uk/news/23265โฆ
A Lagerstรคtte from Australia provides insight into the nature of Miocene mesic ecosystems science.org/doi/10.1126/sโฆ
Microberardius africanus, a close Miocene relative of todayโs Giant beaked Whales (genus Berardius). By Jaime Bran.
Comparison of modern day Great White tooth vs Miocene Great White tooth vs Megalodon tooth in ascending order
Megalodon jaws compared with a great white shark with Dr. Jeremiah Clifford, who specializes in fossil reconstruction, for size comparison - Megalodon was the largest shark to ever live and was from the Miocene era - thankfully millions of years ago
One of the largest terrestrial predator after the dinosaurs went extinct was a 6m long crocodyliform, Barinasuchus arveloi, from the Miocene of South America.
An adult Devincenzia brings a Cardiotherium to its chicks in Miocene South America. Art by Gabriel Ugueto.
Comparison of modern day Great White tooth vs Miocene Great White tooth vs Megalodon tooth in ascending order
๐ฅ Comparison of modern day Great White tooth vs Miocene Great White tooth vs Megalodon tooth in ascending order
Coral ID needed. Richmond VA area. Miocene.
A young Megalodon (Otodus megalodon) joins forces with a Tiger Shark (Galeocerdo cuvier), to clean up a rotting carcass of an Atlantic Goliath Grouper (Epinephelus itajara) in the Late Miocene off the coast of Venezuela.
Lee Creek, Miocene Sponge Spicule. 23.0 - 5.3 MYO imgur.com/a/H2miO1u
Lee Creek Formation, Miocene 23.0 - 5.3 MYO Sponge Spicule imgur.com/a/H2miO1u
Skull of Daeodon shoshonensis, a giant omnivores relative of whales and hippo from the Miocene of North America.
Something found near Shell Point Beach. St Marks formation - Late Miocene. reddit.com/gallery/s2s2y0
Wetlands of Agate, Miocene Nebraska U.S. by Olmagon. The cranes are Balearica exigua, the ducks are Dendrochen sp., the gator is Alligator mcgrewi, the hippo like mammals are Arretotherium fricki, and the Giant otter like mammal is Potamotherium valletoni.
The lower jaw of Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, a hyenadont from the Miocene of Africa, compared to the skull of a lion.
Tyto gigantea was a large species of owl that lived during the Miocene. It had a wingspan of 2 meters and was closely related to todayโs barn owl.
Andalgalornis, the ripper of Miocene Argentina
