Result from the Irdin Manha Formation #paleostream. While you might never heard it's name you most likely have heard of some of the fauna from here. First and foremost Andrewsarchus. The fossils were so far largely excavated by the @amnhnyc in northern China (Inner Mongolia) during...
...the early 20th century. That means finding ANY good information on the environment is rather... complicated. So take the interpretation here with some grain of salt. Irdin Manha is a place preserving (probably) the remains of an open, semiarid steppe with rivers...
depositing sediments with fossils of brontothers, dinoceratans and whippomorphs galore. What we witness here is a transition from the typical Eocene forest faunas to the megafauna dominated open ecosystems. The animals in this scene are clumping up around the banks of a river...
...hoping to cross with a raging wildfire in the background. Notice the high water marks on the shore, it's been a while since it rained. The size chart was put together by Discord member Gnath, who did this month before the stream in anticipation of this being spun on the wheel.
