Platybelodon prehistoric elephant, illustration C046/0717

Platybelodon prehistoric elephant, illustration

Código da imagem : C046/0717
Dimensões : 6.496 X 4.329 pixels
Orientação : horizontal

Data do upload no fornecedor : 17/04/2019
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Pauta:	Platybelodon prehistoric elephant, illustration
Título:	Platybelodon prehistoric elephant, illustration
Descrição:	Platybelodon. Illustration and photo-reconstruction of the prehistoric elephant Platybelodon. Platybelodon was a genus of large herbivorous mammal related to the elephant (order Proboscidea). It lived during the Miocene Epoch, about 15-4 million years ago, and ranged over Africa, Europe and Asia. Although it thrived during its time, it did not survive past the Miocene. Platybelodon was previously believed to have fed in the swampy areas of grassy savannas, using its teeth to shovel up aquatic and semi-aquatic vegetation. However, wear patterns on the teeth suggest that it used its lower tusks to strip bark from trees, and may have used the sharp incisors that formed the edge of the shovel more like a modern-day scythe, grasping branches with its trunk and rubbing them against the lower teeth to cut it from a tree. It was 4.5 m long, 2.2 m tall and weighed 2500 kg. Due to the shape of the two lower teeth, which are worn by many gomphothere genera (such as Platybelodon, Archaeobelodon,
Coleção:	Science Photo Library
Crédito:	ROMAN UCHYTEL/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/ Fotoarena
Disponibilidade:	imediata
Direito de uso:	Direito controlado
Autorização do(a) modelo:	não
Autorização da propriedade:	não

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