Cynodictis-A, -B & Chattium

Dear Friends
two Cynodictis http://walkingwith.wikia.com/wiki/Cynodictis Cy-A, Cy-B from Herrlingen (Baden-Württemberg - Germany) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrlingen aged of about 25 Myr (Oligocene - Chattium https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattium ) present now themselves through the eye of MS-01. The well preserved tri-cusps molars of similar dimensions indicates that Cy-A and Cy-B had practically the same age, but the darker fossilization of Cy-B with respect to Cy-A indicates that they died and probably also lived in rather different places. Anyway, I am grateful to Cy-A and Cy-B for
having given us a taste of the far and lost Oligocene - Chattium.
Salutations
Giancarlo   

Palaeologale minuta

Dear Friends
I hope that you don't find boring the initiated journey in the past Eras, this time between 35 - 16 myr ago in the actual Florida (USA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida , because it is for me source of particular satisfaction. Never in the past, in fact, I statically moved so far for meeting so strange creatures no longer possible to encounter in these days. Palaeogale minuta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeogale is our present guest, an hyper-carnivorous small mammal probably associable with the nowadays Mustelidae  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustelidae . Its survived portion of yaw already tell us a lot - cf. the images - of his life habitudes, but probably much more could tell us its perfectly preserved teeth, in which his DNA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA is still waiting for revealing his intimate nature.
Salutations
Giancarlo

 

Homotherium ?

Dear Fiends
thanks to our Gianni; to his palaeontological collection and MS-01, it is possible to continue the excursions in the paleo-epochs. This time, a tooth address to a meeting with a possible Homotherium https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Homotherium somewhere in the actual Venezuela https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela , at some point in time between 5 mya and 10 kya ago. But let Gianni to express his opinion about the identification of this respected, ferocious guest:

"1)        I exclude Panthera atrox (American lion)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_lion due to the presence of a vestigial heel (talonid) on the posterior edge. The cusps are also much lower than in Panthera;

2)        I  would also exclude Smilodon https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Smilodon and Machairodus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machairodus , in which the posterior cusp (protoconid) is much more developed and bent backwards than the anterior one (paraconid).

In my view, the combination of features of this tooth, i.e. the presence of a small talonid, the sub-equal length and height of the cusps and the presence of serrations support the identification of the specimen as a Homotherine (this group were the only saber-tooths with serrations on all teeth, at least in the young adult individuals like this one)".

Any comment from your side is welcome.

Salutations

Giancarlo

 

 

NS-Dokumentationszentrum in Munich

Dear Friends
the NS-Dokumentationszentrum http://www.ns-dokumentationszentrum-muenchen.de/zentrum announced to me by Alexander let in me the interest to see which approach it adopted to present the National-Socialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism . Located at the place of the building of the the hearquarter of the Nazi party in Munich, it remind that the Nazism born here and impresses by the lot of silent, aware, conscious visitors. Clearly it indicates that forgotting or supressing the dignity of human person of political opponents, groups and entire peoples causes, then and now, loose of respect and desire of physical elimination. Any comment from your side is welcome.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Belo Slato - Keramika Danes

Dear Friends
if Belo Slato http://m-polo.blogspot.de/2015/06/belo-slato.html through classic ceramics shows the joy of the human soul, Keramika Danes - Ceramics Today - at the Unicum in Mentelova - Lublana   http://www.unicum.si/index_engl.htm complete the cycle providing ceramics responses to the curiosity of the human soul. Let me say that said responses were sometimes only partially understandable, so they let open space for further questions and reflections in a de-stressing evening at http://www.vodnikov-hram.si . Please, tell me your opinions.
Salutations
Giancarlo