AND HERE WE GO, result of yesterdays formation #paleostream. The early Miocene of the Austrian Paratethys, home of my many cool critters, but not Cetotherium, although we first expected it to be present here we discovered that during this time a small whales can't be confidently placed here. Despite that we stuck with this place and time of the Paratethys because it still offers a LOT of cool fauna, marine and terrestrial.
We choose three formations from Northern East Austria. The environment seems to be rather stable during this time.
here my quick and dirty size chart to figure out how the larger animals would relate in size to each other.
And now an earlier sketch of the composition, when we still thought we could have a Cetotherium in here. We afterwards also tried this with a local basking skark but that doesn't really fit this feeding style. Instead I settled eventually on Austromola being cleaned by seabirds.
One of my favorite parts in here was the giant oyster reef. Crassostrea gryphoides could grow up to 60 cm long and the town of Stetten has one of these preserved over several hundred square meter.
