swap_horiz Proconsul africanus Alternatives

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Ardi (ARA-VP-6/500, Ardipithecus ramidus)

Ardi, catalogued as ARA-VP-6/500, is a partial skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus from the Afar region of Ethiopia. The re...

Early Human Ethiopia Miocene Hominin

9.2 Excellent

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Turkana Boy (KNM-WT 15000, Homo ergaster)

Turkana Boy, catalogued as KNM-WT 15000, is a remarkably complete early Homo skeleton discovered in 1984 near Lake Turka...

Kenya Pleistocene Homo Erectus Hominin

9.2 Excellent

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Taung Child (Australopithecus africanus)

The Taung Child is the fossilized skull and natural brain endocast of a juvenile Australopithecus africanus discovered a...

South Africa Juvenile Skull Pliocene

9.2 Excellent

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Homo floresiensis (LB1)

LB1 is the principal fossil specimen of Homo floresiensis, a small-bodied hominin discovered in 2003 at Liang Bua cave o...

Dwarf Indonesia Skull Pleistocene

9.2 Excellent

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Archaeopteryx lithographica (Berlin specimen HMN 1880)

The Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx is a Late Jurassic fossil from the Solnhofen limestone of Bavaria and one of the mo...

Bird Jurassic Transition Solnhofen

9.2 Excellent

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Borealopelta markmitchelli (TMP 2011.033.0001)

Borealopelta markmitchelli, a nodosaurid ankylosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Alberta discovered by miner Shawn Funk...

Canada Cretaceous Ankylosaur Nodosaurid

9.2 Excellent

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Selam (DIK-1-1, Australopithecus afarensis)

Selam is the nickname of DIK-1-1, a juvenile Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered at Dikika in Ethiopia and da...

Ethiopia Juvenile Skull Pliocene

9.1 Excellent

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Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Toumai)

Sahelanthropus tchadensis is an extinct primate known from late Miocene fossils discovered in Chad, including a distorte...

Skull Chad Miocene Hominin

9.0 Excellent

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Otodus megalodon (Megalodon)

Otodus megalodon was a giant extinct lamniform shark that lived from the Miocene into the Pliocene, roughly 23 to 3.6 mi...

Pelagic Shark Teeth Miocene

9.0 Excellent

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Orrorin tugenensis (BAR 1000'00)

Orrorin tugenensis is an extinct primate from the late Miocene, known from fossils discovered in Kenya's Tugen Hills and...

Kenya Miocene Hominin Bipedal

8.4 Great

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Homo longi (Dragon Man, CAGS-HV-PA-01)

Homo longi is a proposed species of archaic human based on CAGS-HV-PA-01, a nearly complete skull reportedly discovered...

China Skull Pleistocene Hominin

8.3 Great

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Gigantopithecus blacki

Gigantopithecus blacki was an extinct great ape known mainly from large teeth and lower jaws found in southern China and...

China Teeth Giant Ape Pleistocene

8.2 Great

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Phorusrhacus longissimus

Phorusrhacus longissimus, a Miocene terror bird from Argentina standing roughly 2.5 meters tall, was the apex terrestria...

Bird South America Miocene Apex Predator

8.1 Great

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Argentavis magnificens

Argentavis magnificens, a giant Miocene teratornis described from Argentina in 1980, had an estimated wingspan of roughl...

Bird Argentina Miocene Largest Flying Bird

8.0 Great

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Stupendemys geographicus

Stupendemys geographicus is an extinct giant freshwater turtle from Miocene and Pliocene deposits in northern South Amer...

Turtle South America Giant Freshwater

7.9 Good

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Pelagornis sandersi

Pelagornis sandersi was a very large extinct seabird described in 2014 from a fossil specimen discovered near Charleston...

Bird South Carolina Miocene Seabird

7.8 Good

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Kenyanthropus platyops (KNM-WT 40000)

Flat-faced hominin discovered in Kenya in 1999 and dated to approximately 3.5 million years ago; its distinctive cranial...

Kenya Skull Pliocene Hominin

7.7 Good

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Andrewsarchus mongoliensis (AMNH 20135)

Andrewsarchus mongoliensis is an extinct Eocene mammal known principally from AMNH 20135, a very large skull discovered...

Mongolia Skull Eocene Condylarthra

7.6 Good

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Tsaagan mangas

Tsaagan mangas is a species of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in Mongolia during the Late Cretaceous epoch....

Mongolia Skull Cretaceous Theropod

7.2 Good

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Darwinius masillae (Ida, PMO 214.214)

Darwinius masillae specimen PMO 214.214, commonly called Ida, is a nearly complete Eocene primate fossil from the Messel...

Germany Complete Eocene Primate

6.4 Fair