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Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / July 2006Did Andrewsarchus really exist?
Although I love the idea of this huge, hyena-like beast, the one skull fragment found looks just like an entelodont. I'm thinking this was wishful thinking, rather than science. Anyone else come to the same conclusion? Pegleg > Although I love the idea of this huge, hyena-like beast, the one skull > fragment found looks just like an entelodont. I'm thinking this was > wishful thinking, rather than science. > Anyone else come to the same conclusion? > > Pegleg Most sources seem to think it belonged to a very large hoofed meat eater with a wolf like body. Smaller ones were common at the time and enough was found to make the connection reasonably solid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrewsarchus_mongoliensishttp://en.wikipedia.org/w iki/Andrewsarchus_mongoliensishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrewsarchus_mongoli ensis > Although I love the idea of this huge, hyena-like beast, the one skull > fragment found looks just like an entelodont. I'm thinking this was > wishful thinking, rather than science. > Anyone else come to the same conclusion? First, it's not a skull fragment -- it's pretty much everything except the mandible. And no, it looks nothing like an entelodont to me: the back teeth are shearing, there's no postorbital bar at all, there's a big sagittal crest. And that's just from a cursory examination of a photo. It sure looks like a mesonychian. >> Although I love the idea of this huge, hyena-like beast, the one skull >> fragment found looks just like an entelodont. I'm thinking this was [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > big sagittal crest. And that's just from a cursory examination of a > photo. It sure looks like a mesonychian. There were some other fragments as well. All sources go for a largest known mesonychain or something really close. |
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