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Asier-Larramendi
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[2015-05-03 10:00:39 +0000 UTC]
"Skeletal Restorations"
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# About me
Kaixo guztioi!Paleontologian ikertzailea naiz. Nire ikerketak batez ere Proboszideotara eta tamainia korporalera zuzdenduta daude.
Bestalde, desagertutako animali ikusgarriak berreraikitzea gustoko dut, batez ere hugaztunak. Nire berregiteak ahal ditudan zehatzenak egiten ditut, benetako hezurren neurriak mm-etatik pixeletara pasaz (1 mm= 1 pixel).
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Hello everbody!
I'm Paleontology researcher. My studies principally focuses on proboscideans and vertebrate body size.
Also, I love to restore extinct animals, specially mammals. I try to make them as accurate as possible. For my recreations, I translate the real bone dimensions from mm to pixels. (1 mm= 1 pixel)
# Comments
Comments: 56
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Hello Assier. Just wondering, is there any chance that you'll make an asian elephant skeletal?
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Hello!
I've already done it. You can check it in my scientific paper about proboscideans' body size here: www.app.pan.pl/article/item/ap…
I should upload it to DA also.
Best!
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Which proboscideans had the widest bodies based off your volumetric analyses?
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Hi. Using paint.net, I calculated a couple of overall heights, since your paper only includes shoulder heights at the moment, which isn't the highest point of the body with these animals. For the largest steppe mammoth specimen (with 4.5m SH), I got an overall height of 4.62m, and for the 5.2m P.namadicus, I got an overall height of 5.72m due to the domed head it has. Would you say these figures are remotely accurate?
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Yes, you nail them, though P. namadicus has elevated head in that position, in relax one it would be 5.37 m to the highest point of the head according to the reconstruction, which is approximate by now.
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Excuse me, can you give me the link to your paper?
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Sure: www.app.pan.pl/article/item/ap…
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Я не встречал ни одного убедительного, реалистичного рисунка Палеолоксодонта namadicus . Скажите почему ? Нет хороших художников ? Компьютерные версии не в счёт , там нет искусства .
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Sure there are, but probably they don't know the species or they are not interested on it yet.
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Thanks a lot for the watch! I really do appreciate it
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Hi there!
Although I'm not a huge fan of mammals, I must say that your skeletal restorations are excellent!
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Could you tell me what kind of environment Palaeoloxodon falconeri lived in on Sicily? I haven't found any information on that.
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These elephants lived in warm climate and in a green landscaped with the following fauna: Crocidura esuae,Lutra trinacriae, Leithia cartei, Leithia melitensis,Maltamys gollcheri, bats associated with diversified herpetofauna and avifauna.
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Was it more of a grassy lowland environment?
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It was also grassy and hilly environment.
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I was wonder, how much is known of Palaeoloxodon naumanni?
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There is many material, unfortunately there are not good published descriptive papers.
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Ah, that is unfortunate.
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Hello there ^^. I was trying to do research on the giant Palaeoloxodon namadicus, but when I tried to find out it's temporal range, I couldn't find anything on Wikipedia. Could you tell me when and where it first appeared, and when it became extinct?
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Hello,
The fossils of this species are dated from Middle to Late Pleistocene.
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From what localities/regions exactly? Also, is it possible that it coexisted with a member of Hominini?
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It's from India if I recall correctly.
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Thanks. For such a popular animal, it has very little information on it.
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I know, I had similar difficulties a few months ago.
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Can you tell me if the morphology of Stegodon florensis insularis was similar to that of Stegodon zdansky?
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It was for sure quite different.
A paper of mine and Maria Rita Palombo, will be published in short time, it talks about P. falconeri, it was very different from its mainland ancestor P. antiquus.
Dwarf forms suffered drastic allometric changes from its ancestors because of new biomechanical requirements and the square-cube law.
By the way, Stegodon sondarii was even smaller.
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Yes, I have heard about the P. falconeri paper and I am very excited to read it, that was one weirdly proportioned elephant 
I have heard about S. sondaari, I was just asking about S. florensis insularis because it lived at the right time for the episode of a project I am working on which features Homo floresiensis (oddly enough the only thing I've ever worked on that mainly focuses on a hominid species).
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Well, Stegodon florensis was quite large, around 2 meters tall and 2 tonnes in body mass, so the anatomical changes might not had been very strong.
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Yeah, I kind of figured they wouldn't be very strong.
Actually that reminds me, how much material of S. florensis insularis is known?
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I do not have make a deep research on this particularly species, so I can't give you a precise answer, sorry.
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Oh, okay. Thanks anyway 
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