#plesiadapis

[vickysaurus]

Choose your fighter.

[antiqueanimals]

The Evolution of the Mammals. Written by L. B. Halstead. Illustration by Sergio. 1978.

Internet Archive

[nasiloo]

Inspired by this image of a plesiadapis from Wikipedia

Imagine living 50 million years before the invention of soda

(Edited to fix the links)

[bjekkergauken]

Scenic paleogene views

[paleoart]

Evolution Series: Prancing Primates

Primates are some of the most adaptable and successful mammals alive, and the only group of animals known to have developed sapience. Their long history starts right at the beginning of the Age of Mammals.

*The animals represented here are not to scale and don’t represent a direct line of descent, but rather plausible models for how this amazing transition happened.*

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[antiqueanimals]

Eupantothere and Plesiadapis from the Prehistoric Mammals Coloring Book, published in 1991 by Jan Sovák

[antiqueanimals]

Plesiadapis. Gouache on board. Bernard Long. 1982.

[vickysaurus]

Plesiadapis, one of the earliest primates.