#daeodon

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!

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

More.

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.