The Proboscidea of the Past

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@Rishi probably you have heard that according new studies the largest land mammal specie ever to live on Earth is Paleoloxodon namadicus with estimated mass of 22 tons and the largest bone from this ancient elephant was found in India a 170 years ago by British researcher Prinsep (1834). Currently the femur of the giant must be stored SOMEWHERE in the museums of Calcutta.... Have you seen personally this gigantic femur in the open exposition and could you send us some photos of it? In this scientific article (Asier Larramendi, Shoulder height, body mass, and shape of proboscideans, page 559) are written following strange words:

"The distal femur portion of this specimen must be restudied. The fossils are LIKELY stored in the Indian Museum of Kolkata; until such a collection can be revised this size estimate will remain speculative."

https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published...362014.pdf

...I have an impression that nobody knows where exactly is stored this gigantic femur... If I am not wrong no current photos, only old descriptions. You understand the word is for mammal with size of dinosaur.. .You can see a paint of the animal in the very bottom of this article.


@Polar do you know that in Paleontological museum of University of Sofia could be seen one of the largest if not the largest fully survived skeletons of Deinotherium giganteum in the world. The size of the skeleton is gigantic - 4 meters tall in the shoulders and 4,20 meters tall in the pelvis. I have seen numerous times this skeleton, its really enormous, was found in the aria of Ezerovo. Its body mass is estimated to be 13,2 tons (page 555-556):

https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published...362014.pdf

But I think the body mass of that deinotherium is undersimated... Look, the largest African elephant ever with height of 3,96 meters in flesh weighted 12,24 tons. This deinotherium in flesh was 4,20 m tall in the shoulders and 4,40 m in the pelvis aria... and we know that deinotherium had more robust structure than African elephant... I suggest the real mass of that specimen should be 15-16 tons. What do you think?

Image:
http://photoplace.bg/photo/629496 Reply