Identify the species

September 28, 2010 by SWestfall3

Posted in Identify the species | 4 Comments

on September 28, 2010 at 11:33 pm Jeremy

Judging by the feet I think its some type of camelid (with extra toes?), the scull indicates it was an herbivore, but it appears to have had a trunk or hollow proboscus. I’m just not that familiar with extinct mammals.
on September 29, 2010 at 12:04 am Jess

The husband says it is Chalicotherium. He actually shouted over my shoulder when I loaded the page.
on September 29, 2010 at 1:29 am leashedForLife

that is one really bizarre critter –
the front looks equine, like an early-horse,
and from behind the ribs, like a gorilla.

that must have been at least as confounding
as the discovery of the platypus.
– terry
on September 29, 2010 at 10:17 pm Suzanne

I couldn’t remember the name, but Jess beat me to it anyway. I just remembered it as ‘that super weird ungulate that looked like a sloth’.

I recognize that mural – Smithsonian Natural History Museum?

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