Almost 12 million years ago, there was a carnivorous mammal in modern France that had powerful jaws capable of breaking bones. Researchers have been able to find the bones of a giant amphithenide of a new species ,
KYIV , UkraineGate , 19 , June , 2022 | Technology .
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Amphithenids are predators that are distant ancestors of modern carnivorous mammals. Some amphithenids had a massive physique and large size: the North American amphitheater of the species Amphicyon ingens, for example, weighed halftones.
Amphithonide, which lived in Western Europe in the Middle Miocene, was smaller: its weight is estimated at 200 kilograms.
The new species is called Tartarocyon cazanavei, or Tarzarocyon Casanava, after Tartaro, a cannibal giant from Basque mythology, and Alan Casanava, the owner of the excavated land in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques.
Of particular interest to the find is the fact that in the north of France did not find many fossils of extinct animals, so that even one lower jaw in a more or less surviving state – an achievement for French paleontology.
Source: Ukrgate
