Age: Eocene

Review: Entelodont (AAA)

Genus: Entelodon Brand: AAA Classification: Mammal Age: Eocene, Oligocene, Paleocene Type: Figurine

4 (9 votes)

Admittedly, there were lovelier animals to have walked the earth in prehistoric times than entelodonts, omnivorous beasts that were two metres tall and four metres long. Entelodonts were especially abundant in what are now Mongolia, China and Northern America and strolled through the landscape searching for any kind of food in the Eocene epoch – mainly probably carrion.

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Review: Prehistoric Sea Life Toob (Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Basilosaurus, Chlamydoselachus, Dolichorhynchops, Elasmosaurus, Henodus, Ichthyosaurus, Liopleurodon, Metriorhynchus, Nothosaurus, Tylosaurus Brand: Safari Ltd. Classification: Ichthyosaur, Mosasaur, Placodont, Plesiosaur, Pliosaur, Reptile (other), Whale Age: Cretaceous, Eocene, Jurassic, Triassic Type: Tube

4.5 (17 votes)

Review by Cordylus, photos and figure captions by Plesiosauria
This is truely a marine reptile lover’s dream come true. For years, Nothosaurus, Metriorhynchus, Basilosaurus and the like were all hard to find and expensive (if there were any to even be found) – until now.

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Review: Prehistoric Life Toob (Safari Ltd)

Genus: Andrewsarchus, Arsinoitherium, Doedicurus, Homo neanderthalensis, M. primigenius, Macrauchenia, Mammuthus, Megatherium, Smilodon, Woolly mammoth Brand: Safari Ltd. Classification: Cat, Elephant, Hominid, Mammal Age: Eocene, Miocene, Oligocene, Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Set, Tube

4 (10 votes)

Safari Ltd has released several new tubes in 2010, or Toobs, to be funky but grammatically incorrect, each of which contains a selection of prehistoric critters. But before we pour these new toobs out for review, let’s take a look at one of the existing toob sets.

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Review: Diatryma (Bullyland)

Genus: Diatryma, Gastornis Brand: Bullyland Classification: Bird Age: Eocene, Paleocene Type: Figurine

3.9 (10 votes)

The Bullyland Diatryma is a well done replica of an athletic, robust bird. Bullyland scores with a credible posture, nice colouring and some neat details. On the other hand one can say Bullyland perhaps interpreted Diatryma a little bit too clumsy.

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Review: Arsinoitherium (Prehistoric Life Collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Arsinoitherium Brand: Prehistoric Life, Safari Ltd., Wild Safari Classification: Mammal Age: Eocene, Oligocene Type: Figurine

4 (22 votes)

Arsinoitherium was a large paenungulate mammal which lived roughly 30 million years ago during the late Eocene and early Oligocene epochs in Northeastern Africa. These animals would have superficially resembled modern rhinoceroses but were in fact more closely related to elephants.

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Review: Andrewsarchus (Prehistoric Life Collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Andrewsarchus Brand: Prehistoric Life, Safari Ltd., Wild Safari Classification: Mammal Age: Eocene Type: Figurine

3.7 (18 votes)

Andrewsarchus was a large basal mesonychid which existed roughly 45 million years ago during the Eocene epoch. It is known only from a large skull measuring more than three feet long and a few bone fragments, so most reconstructions of the animal’s postcranial anatomy are based on its smaller and more well known mesonychid relative Mesonyx.

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