jasonlwjy Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Hi, everyone, I recently collect some fossil materials of amphicyon, mainly in Ningxia province in China, I am now gonna share some of them, hope you enjoy The first one is a large mandible up to 35cm, which the total skull length is estimated to be approcimately 48cm, much larger than lions and tigers. According to its relatively slender shape, I think that this belongs to an large undescribed specie of Cynelos. It's still an young adult base on its sharp undamaged canine 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonlwjy Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 Just now, jasonlwjy said: Hi, everyone, I recently collect some fossil materials of amphicyon, mainly in Ningxia province in China, I am now gonna share some of them, hope you enjoy The first one is a large mandible up to 35cm, which the total skull length is estimated to be approcimately 48cm, much larger than lions and tigers. According to its relatively slender shape, I think that this belongs to an large undescribed specie of Cynelos. It's still an young adult base on its sharp undamaged canine I didn't decribed it accurately, this mandible is incomplete and the remaining part is actually 32cm instead of 35, but the complete lengh of mandible is estimated to be over 35cm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonlwjy Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 The second species are also undescribed, I only know that it's from the subfaminly amphicyoninae. Base on its huge teeth and skull, it may be a kind of pseudocyon or amphicyon. You can see a comparison between lower caninne of this specie and the previous one in the second picture, which is a lot larger There are strong serration on the cutting edge of the canine, it shows that this kind of amphicyon specialize on cuting meat 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Moved to MEMBER COLLECTIONS. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonlwjy Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 The third one is also quite large and i belive that it's Amphicyon Zhanxiangi, which was described in China recently. It has a really robust canine, and the size it a bit smaller than the previous species, but a lot larger than the first species 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonlwjy Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 6 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said: Moved to MEMBER COLLECTIONS. Thanks, I am still not familiar with this website, sorry for the inconvinience if I did the wrong operation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 9 minutes ago, jasonlwjy said: Thanks, I am still not familiar with this website, sorry for the inconvinience if I did the wrong operation No worries. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonlwjy Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 (edited) The next one are Gobicyons from the subfamily Haplocyoninae, they are a genus of bone-crushing kind of amphicyon which size are similar to spotted hyenas. I only got a canine of this kind of amphicyon, but I also got some photos of their skull, they are collections from one of my friends It's a lot smaller than the largest undescribed amphicyon Edited February 3, 2022 by jasonlwjy wrong words spelling 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonlwjy Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 Another undescribed species of amphicyon, its canines are really sharp and the crown occupies large proportion of the total length. its size are intermediate, the total length of a canine is over 10cm, still a lot larger than the Gobicyon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonlwjy Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 the update of these amphicyon materials will be ongoing, still cleaning and fixing some of the skulls and teeth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Impressive! http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Very interesting and unusual collection. Thank you for sharing. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 nice stuff. so, you out to look for amphicyonids only? You must see a lot of non-carnivore fossils out there. If you have some of them to show off, we would love to see them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonlwjy Posted February 11, 2022 Author Share Posted February 11, 2022 On 2/4/2022 at 6:42 AM, jpc said: nice stuff. so, you out to look for amphicyonids only? You must see a lot of non-carnivore fossils out there. If you have some of them to show off, we would love to see them. Yes, there are a lot of intersting non-carnivore fossils in this region of China, but most of my collection are carnivore fossils, so I afraid I do not have the ability to share too much about non-carnivore stuffs. My collection is not restricted to amphicyonids, I can still share many teeth and skulls from different kinds of carnivore, maybe i will open a new topic for this someday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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