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The giant tortoise Megalochelys margae of early Pleistocene Sulawesi, Indonesia by Rudolf Hima.
▲ 95 r/pleistocene

The giant tortoise Megalochelys margae of early Pleistocene Sulawesi, Indonesia by Rudolf Hima.

u/Quaternary23 — 22 hours ago
▲ 152 r/pleistocene

The Madura Strait Faunal Assemblage of late middle Pleistocene Java, Indonesia by Davin Arya Nirwasita. Fossils representing multiple species associated with grassland and freshwater habitats were discovered between 2014 and 2015 during a port construction project.

Species and genus list:

Elephas sp.

Homo erectus

Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis)

Siamese Crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis)

Leopard (Panthera pardus)

Ganges Shark (Glyphis gangeticus)

Javan Long-horned Water Buffalo (Bubalus palaeokerabau)

Duboisia santeng

Stegodon trigonocephalus

Epileptobos groeneveldtii

Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus)

Axis lydekkeri (extinct relative of Hog and Chital Deer)

Bos palaesondaicus (relative and possible ancestor of the Banteng)

Rusa sp. (a genus of old world deer, these late middle Pleistocene remains possibly belong to the still extant Javan Rusa deer (Rusa timorensis) though this isn’t confirmed or denied yet).

u/Quaternary23 — 3 days ago
▲ 69 r/pleistocene

Epileptobos groeneveldtii by Davin Arya Nirwasita. This very little known large bovid inhabited Java during the middle Pleistocene.

u/Quaternary23 — 5 days ago
▲ 14 r/pleistocene

Haringtonhippus francisci remains from the Late Pleistocene of southern Mexico.

Haringtonhippus francisci from southern Mexico. UMPE 561, basicranium in (A) dorsal, (B) lateral, and (C) ventral views. IHNFG-4211, mandible in (D) lateral and (E) dorsal views. IHNFG-4699, mandible in (F) lateral and (G) dorsal views. IHNFG-4155, right P4-M1 in (H) occlusal view and left P2-M1 in (I) occlusal view.

u/Quaternary23 — 5 days ago
▲ 195 r/pleistocene

Somewhere on one of the three Hawaiian islands of Maui, Lanai, and Molokai, an Apteribis forages at night for invertebrates like snails. Artwork by Joschua Knüppe.

u/Quaternary23 — 9 days ago
▲ 250 r/pleistocene

The Indian Aurochs (Bos primigenius namadicus) by Agustin Diaz. This subspecies of Aurochs inhabited the Indian subcontinent and West Asia from the middle Pleistocene to the Holocene, going extinct 3,800 years ago. Humans were the cause of its extinction. It is the ancestor of the domestic Zebu.

u/Quaternary23 — 12 days ago