Adapis
Georges Cuvier
Cuvier took incomplete jaws from Montmartre for those of a "pachyderm". Only in the 1870s was a primate recognized in them.
Photo: Hans Georg Stehlin (Public domain)
Fur, milk and three tiny ear bones: mammals have existed since the Triassic. During the age of dinosaurs they mostly stayed small. After the extinction 66 million years ago, they filled every empty niche. That brought whales, giant sloths and huge rhinoceros relatives.
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Albanosmilus
Kretzoi
Its largest species weighed 80 to 100 kg: as much as a jaguar. This carnivore was one of the last of its family. It probably hunted herbivores its own size or larger. Alone or in packs? The debate is still open. It vanished for failing to adapt to more open land.
Photo: Xvazquez (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Amebelodon
Erwin Hinckley Barbour
This proboscidean had two elongated flattened lower tusks that earned its family the nickname "shovel-tuskers". Its upper tusks were rather short. Like modern elephants it had columnar legs with five toes and a snout extended into a trunk.
Photo: Tim Evanson from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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