33-million-year-old fossil of extinct anthracothere found in Pakistan

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33-million-year-old fossil of extinct anthracothere found in Pakistan
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Published: January 1, 2018
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The fossil weighs 10 kilogrammes and is one foot long. PHOTO: Express

The skull of an animal, belonging to the family of extinct creatures known as anthracotheres, has been found in Sohawa, Jhelum District of Pakistan’s Punjab province.

The fossil weighs 10 kilogrammes and is one foot long. It is believed to be 33 million years old, Express News reported.

PHOTO: Express

It was found by Punjab University’s research scholar Ghayyur Abbas and field guides Chaudhry Abid Hussain and Mehtab Khan. The fossil will be examined at the Punjab University.



Scientists confirm 3.5 billion year-old fossil life in rock

Sohawa is a hotbed for fossils, with many other discoveries made there in recent years.

PHOTO: Express

The plant-eating, semi-aquatic mammals called anthracotheres flourished over 40 million years and died out less than 2.5 million years ago. They are believed to have left only one descendant – the hippopotamus.

PHOTO: Express

Earlier, the skulls of a nine million-year-old anthracothere, Merycopotamus medioximus, and a contemporaneous fossil hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon sivalensis) were found in Pakistan’s Siwalik Hills, according to Berkeley.

 

[Rank]

33 million lol

 

[Enigma_]

Wow one for the museum.

 

[Human One]

Are there any illustrations showing what it would have looked like when alive? It's news to me.

 

[alimobin memon]

Are there any illustrations showing what it would have looked like when alive? It's news to me.

Google it

 

[SecularNationalist]

Are there any illustrations showing what it would have looked like when alive? It's news to me.

 

[YeBeWarned]

I think we can confirm it with Qaim Ali Shah , he must be in his teens at time this creature lives and walk the planet .

 

[SecularNationalist]

I think we can confirm it with Qaim Ali Shah , he must be in his teens at time this creature lives and walk the planet .

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Agree .When he was living and drinking bhang

 

[Human One]

Thanks SN. It looked weird, like a cross between a tapir and a hippo.

 

[El Sidd]

I dont trust these dates but life has always existed in and around Indus.

Its a damn ancient sanctuary for life.

 

[alikazmi007]

Qaim Ali Shah is from the same period, let's have him validate this find!

 

[Ahmet Pasha]

Phir to is ka Allah hi hafiz hai lolz

The fossil will be examined at the Punjab University.

Looks like a drawing on stone IMO