#daeodon

[opabinia--regalis]

the complete transition from basal whippomorphs to ambulocetids to basilosaurids to modern whales!

[alaskanay]

A Daeodon! With a stronger emphasis on its hippo relation. And longer fur because I was partially inspired by the American bison.

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Result from the Agate Fossil Beds #paleostream! This early Miocene lagerstätte from Nebraska (USA) is a fantastic window into our understanding of the transition from forest communities to grassland biomes...

As such Agate features a very mixed community, ancient lineages like oreodonts were still thriving along newcomers like camels. And clades, like the horses, have grazers as well as browsers in their ranks. These herbivores have been found in some cases in large bonebeds...

preserving hundreds of specimen. Besides that we see early modern carnivores rising through the ranks of predators, but still: nothing could beat a fully grown Daeodon. The site today is a National Monument with museum that also houses a large collection of native american...

artifacts but back than these badlands hosted an oak savanna that became dryer over time. As such the deep, corkscrew burrows of Palaeocastor become very prominent at some point but it was still moist enough that you also find here Alligators and the...

largest Andrias (giant salamander) species we know. Much more could be said and shown here but I just leave you with the size chart by Discord member Gnath

Btw. as you can imagine the wonderful work of the Forgotten Bloodlines team was a huge inspiration and at point reference for this piece! Check out their work and the trailer for their upcoming documentary!

[senkkei]

i havent drawn a paleo reconstruction in a while, here's daeodon our best friend daeodon

[princefluph]

Alright yall have twisted my arm heres pages 6,7,8, and 9 (but trust me theres still more lol Ive got near upwards of 200 designs so far)

[carvente]

Now even more (very very derived) synapsids from the Cenozoic on the sketchbook

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[artyofaardvark]

Quick entelodont painting with a design loosely inspired by the Bornean bearded pig. Poor guy is being bothered by biting flies and midges

Made an entelodont design like this a while back and enjoyed it. This is a revamped version that I'm not too sure if I'm happy with yet... Might redo this in the future.

Can you tell I don't like backgrounds? lol

[boobookittenartblog]

Daeodon AKA Dinohyus

An extinct genus of entelodont even-toed ungulates that inhabited North America about 29 to 15.97 million years ago from the early Oligocene to late early Miocene.

The type species is Daeodon shoshonensis, described from a very fragmentary holotype by Cope. Some authors synonymize it with Dinohyus hollandi and several other species, but due to the lack of diagnostic material, this may be questionable.

Another large member of this family, possibly larger than Daeodon, is the Asian Paraentelodon, but it is known by very incomplete material.

Artwork by WillemSvdMerwe