45 Hilarious Oligocene Puns - Punstoppable 🛑

The Oligocene Pelagornis sandersi had the largest wingspan of any bird, estimated between 20 and 24 feet. It was the largest member of the pseudotooth birds, a highly successful family of sea birds with a 50 million year long fossil record. Art by Gabriel Ugueto

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👤︎ u/Dr_Mantis-Shrimp_PhD

📅︎ Jan 17 2022

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This bizarre creature is a Daeodon, a distant relative of hoofed mammals like pigs. Unlike them, it was a predator, and would hunt large prey like Calicotheres and primitive Rhinos in its home of late Oligocene-early Miocene North America.

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👤︎ u/AJ_Crowley_29

📅︎ Jan 16 2022

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A scene that resembles the South American tropics in the sunny morning on the floodplains of late oligocene Nebraska. Name & number charts next are also included. Some of the species are Alligator mcgrewi, Dendrochen robusta, Arretotherium fricki, Paractiornis perpusillus, and Daeodon shohonensis. reddit.com/gallery/rx289v

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👤︎ u/NoDemand1519

📅︎ Jan 06 2022

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Ankylorhiza tiedemani, a scary big ass dolphin from the Oligocene of SC with implications for the convergent evolution of locomotion in Neoceti and early feeding adaptations in echolocating whales.

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👤︎ u/Scientiaetnatura065

📅︎ Jan 01 2022

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Gondwanatheres of the Oligocene

https://sites.google.com/view/allotheria/gondwanatheres-of-the-oligocene

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👤︎ u/bambolinetta

📅︎ Jan 11 2022

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Depictions and skeleton of Mihirungs or Dromornithids, informally known as thunder birds or demon ducks: They were a clade of large, flightless Australian birds of the Oligocene that existed through the Pleistocene Epochs. reddit.com/gallery/rfgz3c

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👤︎ u/KimCureAll

📅︎ Dec 13 2021

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Ankylorhiza, an Oligocene toothed whale that hunted large prey

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👤︎ u/Iamnotburgerking

📅︎ Oct 19 2021

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Oligocene echinoid peeking out of a rock

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👤︎ u/69IntrusiveThots

📅︎ Dec 24 2021

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Researchers discover a previously undocumented (but huge) extinction event of African mammals 34-30 million years ago, coinciding with global cooling, drops in global sea levels, and volcanic activity in eastern Africa: Using phylogenies to detect a major extinction event in the Oligocene of Africa natureecoevocommunity.nat…

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👤︎ u/avogadros_number

📅︎ Oct 12 2021

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Daeodon shoshonensis, a genus of entelodont artiodactyl from middle Oligocene to early Miocene North America. They were the last and largest of the entelodonts, about 3 m. long and stood 1.8 m. tall. by R. Bonna Coêlho

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👤︎ u/reddituser870870

📅︎ Aug 15 2021

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A pair of Hand’s Dawn magpie Geese (Eoanseranas handae) take a drink at a small pool of water in northern Australia during the Miocene. This species lived from the oligocene and into the Miocene and was a close relative and possible ancestor to today’s Magpie Geese.

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👤︎ u/NoDemand1519

📅︎ Dec 02 2021

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Oligocene "Hell Pig" Enteledon (more closely related to hippos actually?) -my art

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👤︎ u/Blane_Sci_Pics

📅︎ Oct 14 2021

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The best tiger shark tooth I’ve ever found. G. casei. Found resting neatly on top of an oligocene limestone outcropping. imgur.com/a/0GHF4sp/

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👤︎ u/69IntrusiveThots

📅︎ Nov 16 2021

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Papagotitans - Giant Lizards of the Oligocene reddit.com/gallery/r93prp

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👤︎ u/Bronesey

📅︎ Dec 05 2021

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Leptocyon, the first canine, from the Oligocene and the Myocene; art by Daniel Allison.

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👤︎ u/mszegedy

📅︎ Aug 18 2021

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Holophoneus a nimravid from the Oligocene. Still not a cat, but we are getting closer-my art

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👤︎ u/Blane_Sci_Pics

📅︎ Oct 16 2021

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Oligocene-Arsinioitherium my art

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👤︎ u/Blane_Sci_Pics

📅︎ Oct 15 2021

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Hyaenodon from the Oligocene, another creodont-my art

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👤︎ u/Blane_Sci_Pics

📅︎ Oct 17 2021

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Skeleton of the “Hell Pig”, Daeodon shoshonensis, from the Late Oligocene-Early Miocene of North America.

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👤︎ u/ImHalfCentaur1

📅︎ Jun 11 2021

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Hyaenodon from the Oligocene epoch My art

https://preview.redd.it/mwzn81o11yt71.jpg?width=3302&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04f207129efeb22daa9e6a65cf528bd3af17fa97

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👤︎ u/Blane_Sci_Pics

📅︎ Oct 17 2021

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Oligocene Oddballs - The Macrohorse (Centaurus chaddium)

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👤︎ u/Ceratoraptor

📅︎ Sep 04 2021

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Leptocyon, the first canine, from the Oligocene and the Myocene; art by Daniel Allison.

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👤︎ u/mszegedy

📅︎ Aug 18 2021

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Oligocene Arsinioitherium-my art /r/Paleoart/comments/q8i6…

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👤︎ u/Blane_Sci_Pics

📅︎ Oct 15 2021

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The Paraceratherium was the Handsome Squidward of the Oligocene Epoch

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👤︎ u/Guilty_Hospital4394

📅︎ Oct 02 2021

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Oligocene "Hell Pig" Enteledon my art /r/Paleoart/comments/q7t6…

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👤︎ u/Blane_Sci_Pics

📅︎ Oct 14 2021

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Into the Oligocene with Paraceratherium-my art /r/Paleoart/comments/q75v…

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👤︎ u/Blane_Sci_Pics

📅︎ Oct 13 2021

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Holophenus, a nimravid (not cat) from the Oligocene -my art /r/Paleoart/comments/q96j…

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👤︎ u/Blane_Sci_Pics

📅︎ Oct 16 2021

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Proailurus is an extinct felid genus that lived in Eurasia approximately 25 million years ago in the Late Oligocene and Miocene.

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👤︎ u/Pardusco

📅︎ May 26 2020

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Oligocene Oddballs - The Macrohorse (Centaurus chaddium)

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👤︎ u/Ceratoraptor

📅︎ Sep 04 2021

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Hyaenodon from the Oligocene epoch My art /r/Paleoart/comments/q9s8…

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👤︎ u/Blane_Sci_Pics

📅︎ Oct 17 2021

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Daeodon shoshonensis was the last and largest of the entelodonts. Entelodontidae was a family of omnivorous ungulates from North America and Eurasia during the Eocene, Oligocene, and Miocene.

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👤︎ u/Pardusco

📅︎ Jan 07 2021

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Researchers discover a previously undocumented (but huge) extinction event of African mammals 34-30 million years ago, coinciding with global cooling, drops in global sea levels, and volcanic activity in eastern Africa: Using phylogenies to detect a major extinction event in the Oligocene of Africa natureecoevocommunity.nat…

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👤︎ u/avogadros_number

📅︎ Oct 12 2021

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what will happen if we ressurrected many of the miocene/oligocene aquatic fauna into todays oceans

what impact will they give. any down sides to the environment and good sides

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👤︎ u/kjleebio

📅︎ Aug 06 2021

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A fishing scene, part of my worldbuilding project regarding an island continent sealed off at least since the earliest Oligocene or later Eocene.

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👤︎ u/Arts_and_Axes

📅︎ Feb 26 2021

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Daeodon shoshonensis, a genus of entelodont artiodactyl from middle Oligocene to early Miocene North America. They were the last and largest of the entelodonts, about 3 m. long and stood 1.8 m. tall. by R. Bonna Coêlho

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👤︎ u/reddituser870870

📅︎ Aug 15 2021

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An unpredicted ancient colonization of the West Indies by North American rodents: dental evidence of a geomorph from the early Oligocene of Puerto Rico floridamuseum.ufl.edu/sci…

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👤︎ u/Express_Hyena

📅︎ Jul 15 2021

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Desmostylia: the coastal marine relative of elephants and dugongs that lived off the shores Asia and America in what’s called the Pacific Rim (oligocene-Miocene)

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👤︎ u/Hunkmunculus

📅︎ Jun 24 2021

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Possible Oligocene leaf fossils reddit.com/gallery/ltc73u

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👤︎ u/Arch2000

📅︎ Feb 27 2021

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Spectember Challenges 2021: Week 1 - Oligocene Oddballs!

The Oligocene was a pivotal time in the Cenozoic, with massive ecological turnover leading to the more familiar faunal composition seen across the world today. In celebration of the bizarre lineages our planet saw at the time, this week’s challenge is dedicated to them.

Prompt: Create a modern day descendent of a lineage that went extinct by the end of the Oligocene, approximately 23 million years ago.

The speculative organism must descend from a described species from the Oligocene. Originality and the inclusion of explanatory text are highly encouraged.

You will then have one week (until September 9th at 9am Pacific Time) to submit your entry for the challenge. In order to enter, you must use the Spectember Challenge flair (please do not use the flair if you are not submitting art for a challenge). Art submitted will also need to be your own original content; reposts will be barred entry.

Voting will commence for the three top-rated entries for this prompt in exactly one week. Please remember at this time that vote manipulation is not allowed, and that karma will not be the only factor in deciding the top entries. As such, you are encouraged to upvote all entries that you believe execute the prompt well. The winning user of this challenge will be crowned "Spectember Champion" and receive a matching flair.

Best of luck to all participating, and happy Spectember!

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👤︎ u/ArcticZen

📅︎ Sep 02 2021

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Several fossils from the Rhodopes, Bulgaria. According to the geological maps I have, the rocks are tufa (one of the photos has a sample) from the Oligocene. More info would be appreciated. Scale is in cm. reddit.com/gallery/plkj3w

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👤︎ u/ithyphallic6

📅︎ Sep 10 2021

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Gondwanatheres of the Oligocene

https://sites.google.com/view/allotheria/gondwanatheres-of-the-oligocene

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👤︎ u/bambolinetta

📅︎ Jan 11 2022

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