An online museum devoted to furthering public knowledge and interest in the thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial of Australia.

A web site which details the discovery and natural history of Thylacoleo, an Australian marsupial of the Pleistocene Epoch. Includes detailed information and many good photographs of thylacoleonid fossils.

North American Fossil Mammal Systematics Database Searching the data - Search tips - About the database - Where do the data come from - Citing the data - Please help Searching the data Please specify whether you are searching for a genus, species, or author using the pull-down menu below. Searches for species will be easier if you also include the genus name (e.g., Canis lupus instead of just ...

Site about the fossil mammals known from the Paleocene epoch. Contains an introduction to Paleocene mammals and a list of genera and species with their classification and taxonomy.

Of Mastodons, Mammoths and Other Giants of the Pleistocene Bones of a Mastodon. During the Pleistocene Epoch, from about 1.5 million to 10, 000 years ago, the world grew cold. Great sheets of ice, sometimes a thousand feet thick, moved down from the north gouging out the land. These harsh conditions seemed to encourage the development of giant mammals (Probably because larger animals are better ...

Stephen Wroe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biological Sciences, University of Sydney ...

Mesozoic mammals Early Mammals The mammals first appeared at the same time as the dinosaurs, in the late Triassic, about 230 million years ago. Their ancestors were the mammal-like reptiles. During the first two thirds of mammalian history, when the dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the mammals were small, nocturnal animals about the size of mice and rats. When the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ...

CALVIN COLLEGE MASTODON PAGE ABOUT THE CALVIN COLLEGE DIG MASTODON REFERENCES LINKS Since 8/4/99 Last updated: 7/27/2001 by Paul Petersen Back to Calvin Geology Page Welcome to the Calvin College mastodon homepage. Featured here are details about our 1999 excavation at the Ada Bible Church site, as well as general mastodon information and links to other mastodon sites. ...

Chiroptera: Fossil Record Although bats are one of the most diverse groups of mammals today, they are one of the least common groups in the fossil record. Bats have small, light skeletons that do not preserve well. Also, many live in tropical forests, where conditions are usually unfavorable for the formation of fossils. Thus we know little about the early evolution of bats. Some mammal teeth ...

From the shadows of dinosaurs, our small, mammalian ancestors emerged, diversified, and evolved. Pictured here is one of our early primate relatives, Smilodectes gracilis, that scampered around 55 million years ago. The first mammals lived in a warm, wet world and dined on soft leafy plants. But beginning about 35 million years ago, the climate began to cool. Grasslands replaced forests. Some ...

A fossil site of international significance left intact for public viewing. Hundreds of skeletons of prehistoric animals have been found in a volcanic ash bed buried beneath the rolling farmlands of northeastern Nebraska. Some of the best-preserved fossil rhinos, horses, camels, and birds known anywhere have been, and are being, excavated by museum crews working in the Ashfall Fossil Beds in ...

Adaptation...Mammoths To Man Packet A INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH The Age of Mammals Small mammals were alive when dinosaurs roamed the earth. No one is quite certain why dinosaurs died out. Some scientists think it could have been a change in the climate. Others have said that there might have been a major disaster, like a comet crashing into the earth. With these large creatures ...

In the Field: Canadian Museum of Nature palaeontologist Jaelyn Eberle tracks a story of life and death when digging for fossils of mammals that survived the Great Extinction Event, near Denver, Colorado.

Nebraska Feature Fossil, Winter 1995 The Shovel-tusker Amebelodon: A New Discovery By Bruce Bailey University of Nebraska State Museum Highway Salvage Paleontologist In June, we received a call from Mike Spaeth of Cheyenne County, reporting the discovery of a large fossil bone protruding from a stream bank. Despite initial communication problems, I made arrangements to investigate his find over ...

Ischyromys This is an extensive morphometric project in which 127 measurements were made on over 5, 000 fossil dentaries of the Eocene-Oligocene rodent Ischyromys. This was the subject of my Ph.D. dissertation at Harvard University and several subsequent publications. Ph.D. Thesis on Ischyromys. Ischyromys of the Great Plains published in the Journal of Paleontology. Ischyromys of Badlands ...

Leptomeryx This is an extensive morphometric project that I conducted as a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian's Department of Paleobiology together with Robert J. Emry. It is a detailed study of evolution at the species level from the fossil record. Abstract of Leptomeryx research Leptomericids of western North America Requests for reprints can be sent to me by e-mail. Timothy H. Heaton: ...