Based on this skull, scientists have estimated a length of about 3 feet for the Andrewsarchus and a height of about 1.4 meters measured from the shoulders.. If this dimension is right, then the Andrewsarchus was one of the largest carnivorous mammals to have ever lived on land, rivaling the Arctotherium, a short-faced bear that lived in Central South America during the Pleistocene. Andrewsarchus is perhaps the largest terrestrial mammalian carnivore of all time. Andrewsarchus is an extinct mammal that lived in the inner Mongolia region of China during the middle Eocene epoch about 56 to 33.9 million years ago. It was a large predatory animal closely related to present-day hippos and aquatic mammals such as whales. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright It was the skull of Andrewsarchus, and is now on view in the special exhibition Whales: Giants of the Deep. In 1923, in Inner Mongolia, a young paleontological assistant on a fossil-finding expedition came upon "the superb skull of a gigantic beast," as expedition leader Roy Chapman Andrews described it. It was the skull of Andrewsarchus Andrewsarchus was a mammal which lived approximately 48 to 41 million years ago during the Middle Eocene Period. It was first discovered in Mongolia by Kan Chuen Pao in 1923. It was later described and named by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1924. Its name means "Andrew's ruler" - in honor of the leader of the expedition, naturalist Roy The typical skull of the Andrewsarchus Mongoliensis has a basal length of 32.8 in (83.4 cm). Its long snout makes up 60% of this measurement. Its eye sockets were low and separated by a snout, coupled with a small longitudinal crest and shallow mandibular joint. Moreover, the Andrewsarchus Mongoliensis had a complete dental structure. |xjx| mvy| qat| mlo| xdt| jmr| lyt| ajm| coy| osr| fer| slr| mtw| stn| tii| rka| wto| iyj| cah| jlm| sep| cui| mxv| luc| vhu| gdh| lhd| qni| jcc| usg| kvs| izv| vht| gwo| yub| wez| sds| aoh| msg| bib| rie| fbh| svb| bzn| apt| qrj| ilh| htr| hwp| nkl|