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Leptictidium tobieniNamed by Wighart von Koenigswald and Gerhard Storch, 1987 (Generic name by Heinz Tobien, 1962)
Diet: Omnivore (Prey included lizards, insects, smaller mammals, and frogs, as well as plants)
Type: Eutherian (Leptictid) mammal
Size: 36 inches (90 centimeters) long
Region: Europe (Germany)
Enemies: Crocodilians such as Asiatosuchus (a 13-foot crocodile) and Boverisuchus (a 10-foot terrestrial crocodilian with hooves); predatory mammals like Lesmesodon (a primitive hyaenodontid creodont)
Age: Paleogene (Middle Eocene; 47.8 to 42 million BC)
Episode: New Dawn
Info: Scurrying through the lush foliage of the forest in what is the famous Messel Quarry Pit near Frankfurt, Germany around 47 million years ago in the Mid Eocene epoch, this bizarre bipedal mammal, with its long nose, resembles today's elephant shrews, powerful hind legs, and a long tail which aided in locomotion, but how this animal moved, whether it hopped like today's kangaroos (as shown in the original series) or just run fast is still in debate. The fossil remains of Leptictidium found in Messel were preserved with fur as well as a stomach content showing a diet of plant matter, insects, lizards, and small mammals, showing us that it was an omnivore.
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I really cannot wait to see Godinotia already
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I love strepsirrhine primates
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You know, lots of non-macropodiform mammals can move in the kangaroo-style.
Take several rodents, for instance: the Australian hopping mice, jerboas from Africa and Asia, jumping mice from Asia and North America, the African springhares, the dipodomyine heteromyids from North America.
Even sengis, which leptictidans are known to mostly resemble, are known to bound on occasion.
There's also, for one I recently learned of, the kultarr, a small rodent-like dasyuromorph that ranges wide throughout Australia.
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Are you unaware of the pangolins? They move bipedally in a biped dinosaur-like posture.
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You know, lots of non-macropodiform mammals can move in the kangaroo-style.
Take several rodents, for instance: the Australian hopping mice, jerboas from Africa and Asia, jumping mice from Asia and North America, the African springhares, the dipodomyine heteromyids from North America.
Even sengis, which leptictidans are known to mostly resemble, are known to bound on occasion.
There's also, for one I recently learned of, the kultarr, a small rodent-like dasyuromorph that ranges wide throughout Australia.
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TrefRex Since you starting Walking with Beasts art,will you also start the Walking with Monsters art at the same time,along with Walking with Cavemen and maybe other prehistoric documentaries about creatures from BBC EARTH,National Geographic,Discovery channel,e.c.t.?
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And what about the Walking with Monsters art,maybe along with other prehistoric documentaries about creatures from BBC EARTH,National Geographic,Discovery channel,e.c.t.?
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It seems unlikely that Diplocynodon preyed on mammals, studies on the skulls and teeth of the various crocodile genera from Germany at the time shows that the small Diplocynodon would have eaten small fish and frogs, so it wouldn't be in competition with the bigger Asiatosuchus.
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It's locomotion is still a mistery, did it run or hop
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You know, lots of non-macropodiform mammals can move in the kangaroo-style.
Take several rodents, for instance: the Australian hopping mice, jerboas from Africa and Asia, jumping mice from Asia and North America, the African springhares, the dipodomyine heteromyids from North America.
Even sengis, which leptictidans are known to mostly resemble, are known to bound on occasion.
There's also, for one I recently learned of, the kultarr, a small rodent-like dasyuromorph that ranges wide throughout Australia.
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It likely hopped to avoid predators like the Terror Bird Eleutherornis
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Yes, though that's a near cousin to phorusrhacids, not really one itself.
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Eleutherornis would catch one of this and swallow it hole
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Didn't they use that same design for Leppy in the Jimmy Neutron episode, "Sorry Wrong Era?"
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I really love Leptictidium because of just how cute it was
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Pretty cool. Evidence points to both hypothesis: that it ran like a bird or that it hopped like a kangaroo. Evidence supports both options, but at the same time, disproves both. So we really don't know right now.
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You know, lots of non-macropodiform mammals can move in the kangaroo-style.
Take several rodents, for instance: the Australian hopping mice, jerboas from Africa and Asia, jumping mice from Asia and North America, the African springhares, the dipodomyine heteromyids from North America.
Even sengis, which leptictidans are known to mostly resemble, are known to bound on occasion.
There's also, for one I recently learned of, the kultarr, a small rodent-like dasyuromorph that ranges wide throughout Australia.
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I am aware of that. The thing is, Leptictidium didn't seem that, even in that way, able at all to jump as efficiently as all of these hopping mammals anyways. But that is still disputed, anyway.
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Hey, even the doubted can turn out to be fact.
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Next up is Ambulocetus, Eurotamandua, Godinotia and Lesmesodon. Then it’s onto the creatures of “Whale Killer” plus the segment in Chased by Sea monsters with Basilosaurus.
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So it was the size of a small dog or cat?
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Like a Jack Russel Terrier or a bulldog?
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Yep. Just edited my previous comment.
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I did put Titanomymra in the previous comment. What other creatures are mentioned in the companion book?
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I don’t have a copy.
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