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Image reference: 1510
Title:
Andrewsarchus
Description:
Andrewsarchus, meaning 'Andrew's beast', after palaeontologist Roy Chapman Andrews. Found in Mongolia dating back to the Eocene 54.8 to 33.7 million years ago. Illustration by Michael Long.
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Collection: Dinosaurs and Extinct Species
Category: Mammals
Keywords: andrews, roy chapman (1884-1960), andrewsarchus, arctocyonia, artist, brown, carnivorous, cenozoic, cetacean, creodont, creodonta, eating, eocene, epitheria, eutheria, extinct, ferae, fur, hunting, impression, killing, land, largest, long, michael r, mammal, mammalia, mesonychid, mesonychidae, mongolia, pack, palaeontologist, placental, prey, spotted, tertiary
Genus/Species :
Andrewsarchus
© Michael Long/NHMPL
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| | Andresarchus was a huge carnivore with a skull a meter in length, it was most probably a scavenger using its powerful jaws to crush bone to obtain marrow much like a modern day hyena. Studies of the skull have shown a close similarity with that of early cetaceans.
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