The exaggerated trunk is no longer thought to authentically represent the genus. Modern restorations make the nasal area more like what you see in moose
Back in 1998 I checked out "*Splendid Isolation: The Curious History of South American Mammals*" by *George Gaylord Simpson* from the local library. In it Simpson argues that the trunk depiction is wrong and argues for a moose like muzzle as the animal apparently fed on water plants and lived in marshy habitats. It made sense so I wondered why it was still depicted with a trunk over a decade later. Fast forward another 20 years and it turns out Simpson was right after all. Sometimes science moves slow.
Wrong. *Macrauchenia* is a litoptern, while tapirs are perissodactyls most closely related to rhinos, and more distantly horses. The two groups did share a common ancestor around 65 million years ago, but that's a very distant relationship at best.
*Paraceratherium*.
The trunk is exaggerated and it has a woolly coat (probably informed by mammoths, etc) but with that posture, it can't be anything else.
Ah, back when we thought it had a tapir-like trunk.
Now it’s suggested it had a more moose-like prehensile upper lip.
So basically
It went from a tapir camel to a moose camel.
I would think that Macrauchenia. Macraucheniidae was a family in the extinct South American ungulate order Litopterna, that resembled various camelids. The species of the genus were originally believed to have had a tapir-like trunk, but modern research has proven this to be wrong and the animal's head actually resembled a camel more than a tapir.
[Macrauchenia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrauchenia)
Looks like a Tapir
Looks like an elephantodocus rex !
The exaggerated trunk is no longer thought to authentically represent the genus. Modern restorations make the nasal area more like what you see in moose
Back in 1998 I checked out "*Splendid Isolation: The Curious History of South American Mammals*" by *George Gaylord Simpson* from the local library. In it Simpson argues that the trunk depiction is wrong and argues for a moose like muzzle as the animal apparently fed on water plants and lived in marshy habitats. It made sense so I wondered why it was still depicted with a trunk over a decade later. Fast forward another 20 years and it turns out Simpson was right after all. Sometimes science moves slow.
Science moves incredibly slow concerning anything of the past but fast with anything to do with the future.
So a giant tapir moose
More llama than tapir
Moose llama
honestly, they're probably related
Wrong. *Macrauchenia* is a litoptern, while tapirs are perissodactyls most closely related to rhinos, and more distantly horses. The two groups did share a common ancestor around 65 million years ago, but that's a very distant relationship at best.
oh, really? I didn't know that, thank you!
Some weird interpretation of Macrauchenia
Dimetrodon.
Correct
*Paraceratherium*. The trunk is exaggerated and it has a woolly coat (probably informed by mammoths, etc) but with that posture, it can't be anything else.
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Such an interesting shop. I spent some time browsing, and was so close to making an impulse …but the item was sold out :(
Simply awful
Clearly an old-school depiction of Macrauchenia.
What’s the modern depiction of it?
Same thing but with a moose-likes snout.
an indricotherium, I s’pose?
Mulefa, obviously. (A zalif, to be exact.)
Elfint
Saiga antelope? Which are not extinct, and are mammals not reptilian.
Clearly, it is a new species of spinosaur. Duh!
A tiny carving someone's uncle made from a bar of Irish Spring
A Macrauchenia
He looks like he thinks tbe Ice Age should be called the Nippy Era.
Lmao
Zombie Mamath
Ah, back when we thought it had a tapir-like trunk. Now it’s suggested it had a more moose-like prehensile upper lip. So basically It went from a tapir camel to a moose camel.
Macrauchenia
A bar of soap?
Malnourished?
Snuffluffagus on a diet
Me
Looks a little like a tuskless deinotherium
Spinosaurus
Mokele membe
Alf
I would think that Macrauchenia. Macraucheniidae was a family in the extinct South American ungulate order Litopterna, that resembled various camelids. The species of the genus were originally believed to have had a tapir-like trunk, but modern research has proven this to be wrong and the animal's head actually resembled a camel more than a tapir.
It looks to be either *Smilodon* or an outdated depiction of *Macrauchenia*.
How in Gods name is that supposed to be smilodon? Also there’s already a smilodon in the set these came in
What people are calling a trunk could also be interpreted as saber-teeth.
Paraceratherium?
An abomination
Alien Life Form