10 WEIRD Cenozoic Animals
TImeline
Cenozoic
- Holocene (last 12k years)
- Pleistocene 2.6
- Pliocene 5.3
- Miocene 23
- Oligocene 33.9
- Eocene 55.8
- Paleocene 65.5
- KT extinction
K is the abbreviation for the german word for cretaceous
Chicxulub Impact Crator
Cenozoic Animals List
Titanoboa
Paleocene
65 Million Years ago
1 ¼ Ton and up to 60 feet long and 3 feet wide
South America
Tropical Forests & Swamps
Primarily a Piscivore
May have eaten crocs (6 to 7 foot crocs)
Doedicurus
Doedi-cu-rus
Pleistocene – Holocene
Became extinct 10,000 years ago
May have gone extinct due to human hunting
Grazer of grass
About 150 pounds
Hay have been able to stand on 2 legs
Entelodon
Middle Eocene to Early Miocene
Devil Pig!
½ ton 1 ton
Asia / Europe / North America
Related to Pigs but potentially also related to Camels
Huge heads compared to their bodies
Omnivore
Ancylotherium
Miocene to Pleistocene
6 to 8 feet tall
Mammal – Herbivore
Europe / Asia / Africa
It’s front legs were like arms almost .. sort of walked on its knuckles
Horse Head / Sloth Arms
homo australopithecus
– indricotherium
Eurohippus
“The Dawn Horse”
North America and Europe
Eocene
The first known horse!
2 feet tall
In episode 1 walking with beasts .. bird eating a horse!!
Bramatherium
Extinct Giraffe!
India/Turkey/Asia
Miocene – Pliocene
½ ton
Horns were a display feature and for mating between males like deer
SImilar to a modern Okapi
Platybelodon
Miocene
Africa, Asia, and the Caucasus
Herbivore
Grasped branches with it’s trunk and used it’s lower teeth to cut the branches
10 feet long and 2 tons
Thylacosmilus
Miocene to Pliocene
South America
Saber tooth Marsupial Mammal
It had a bit weaker than a domestic cat but it had HUGE neck muscles that it would use to drive it’s saber teeth into prey. Bigger neck muscles than smilodon. It is considered the most extreme saber tooth evolution in mammals
To kill it would hold down prey with it’s paws to immobilize it and then it would use it’s saber teeth to piece it’s throat or major arteries
Odobenocetops
Odd – o – ben – nos-i – Tops
Miocene to Pliocene
Could have hunted in the Mariana trench
Could have been a bottom feeder that ate mollusks off the sea floor
Not much is known about it
Dolphin with a walrus head and had one really short tusk and one 3 foot tusk
¾ ton and relatively close in size to a dolphin
Juvenile megalodon would hunt it
Megatherium
Pilocene to Holocene
Went extinct during the Quaternary extinction event (ice age and humans) which claimed most mammals in the new world
South America
4.4 tons and 20 feet tall
As big as a modern elephant
Herbivore but occasionally scavanged
Synthetoceras
Sin-thet-o-ceras
Miocene
North America
Basically a deer with a weird unicorn slingshot horn on it’s snout
About ½ ton and 6 feet long
