#zygomaturus

[lordsireno]

I'm behiiiind as usual. Deponiatober 1 to 6 (I missed Rusty bots cause it didn't come out right). Rufus/Wildlife/Kuvaq/Fave/Cletus

[alphynix]

Did Zygomaturus have hornlets or did it just have a weird nose?

Zygomaturus had some roughened bumps of bone on its skull, which are speculated in some reconstructions to have supported pads of tough keratinized skin or perhaps even small horns.

[tsyllaes]

WOMBATS. BEST ANIMAL. Two of these bad boys did exist, one of them basically existed I've just exaggerated the bit that has probably been disproven, and the last one still does exist. I love wombats. I'm so sad the other ones are all long since extinct. How cool would it be if diprotodon still existed? omg.

Speaking of, the beeg boy, diprotodon. Speaking of, the Kazinians just call them 'giant wombats' because Latin names will make no sense in Tsyllaes. Giant wombats are about 2m tall at the shoulder and, in the southern mountains, they're used to do strong things like plow fields, pull tree stumps out of the ground, drag entire trees along to where they need to be milled. Cos look, you can't prove to me diprotodon wasn't tameable, and this is my world and I'm putting farming giant wombats in it. Yes, I know I already have draft makakis, I don't care, diprotodons are stronger.

Zygomaturus, which doesn't appear to have a common name so far as I can find, so Kazin calls this one the rhinobat, because it's about the size of the Llayan rhino (which may or may not look like a modern rhino, idk, I'll get to them) and its snoot does the thing where it goes up like a horn! I have no real reason for these guys to exist except that they look funny and I like the progression down to wombat. Rhinobats live in the tropics and do the same heavy work of the diprotodons in the southern mountains.

Palorchestes Azael, which I will never in my life be able to remember and anyway this isn't 100% it, so. The makabat, cos it has a trunk! Maybe. General consensus now seems to be it had more of an elongated top lip, more like a giraffe, rather than a trunk, but in my world with makakis I like to have a bit of a connection. Plus it's not like I'm ever going to use its Latin name, anyway. I feel like they might be farmed for meat? Idk. We don't eat wombats, which may be because they're nowhere near as common as kangaroos or because they just aren't good eating, but idk. These guys don't exist anymore so whatever, I do what I want. Maybe they're tough and you need a lot of garlic but you'll get there in the end.

Which brings us to the good ol' wombat <3 I love wombats so much. This is a southern hairy-nosed wombat specifically, with him long floofy butt and longer nose than the common wombat, which is your more traditional perfect wombat face. Hairy-nosed wombats are derpier and therefore better. Common wombats also exist in Kazin but I wanted to draw hairy-nosed.

[mablox]

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[dbamountaineer]

Discovery : Zygomaturus Jawbone

Discovery : Zygomaturus Jawbone

Discovery (Post#58) : Zygomaturus Jawbone

Photos of the day are all about fossil of Zygomaturus Jawbone, an extinct large marsupial from Australia. During the visit in Mamoth Cave, we had a chance to see the fossil jawbone that still embedded within the limestone wall that was dated 50,000 years. These photos are part of Margaret River (Western Australia) Region Tour October 2016.

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[zygomaturus]

With its homely, pushed-in face and solid, stout body, Zygomaturus is sometimes called the ‘marsupial rhino’. This nearly complete skeleton was found in Mowbray Swamp in Tasmania.

Zygomaturus was a robust herbivore that lived in the forested areas of southern Australia. It browsed on low vegetation near water.