Question

1. What kinds of marine mammals have been found in Oregon? Who were the 3 most prolific collectors or workers in marine mammal paleontology?

2. What kind of fish was the sabre-toothed Smilodonichthyes? How big was it? How did it feed? Where was it found?

3. Who were the Associates? What did they do to further Oregon paleontology? Which university did they represent?

4.. What was Enteledon? What was its diet? What is their modern descendent?

5. What is the common name for Mylagaulus? What do they look like?

6. What is the probable reason that the large Pleistocene mammals (eg. Mastodon, Mammoth, giant ground sloth) disappeared from Oregon 11,000 years ago?

Answer 1

Question 1. What kind of marine mammals have been found in Oregon? Who were the three most prolific collectors or workers in marine mammals paleontology?

Solution: Humpback,gray, blue whales, pacific white sided dolphin, harbour, sea lions have been found in Oregon.

William backland, Stephen hey Gould, Jhon Ostrom and DMS Wotson were most of the famous paleontologist.

Question no 2. What kind of fish was the sabre toothed smilodonichthyes? How big it was? How did it feed? Where was it found?

Solution: Aulopiform fish was the sebre toothed smilodonichthyes. There were moderately elongated and compressed bodies which lack normal scale It is found in Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean mainly in subtropical and tropical water.

Question no 4 what was Enteledon? What was it's diet? What is the modern descendent?

Solution: Enteledon was a extinct Entelodent. It has two toes in one feet and it's legs were built for first running. It has short neck and long wide head.

They eats as modern pigs and piccaries do. Taking in fruits,nut, roots, burk, leave, fungi and invertebrates and Oceanic small animal.

Prolentedon was the modern descendent.

Question 5. What is the common name for Mylagaulus? What do they look like?

Question: The common name of Mylagaulus is howling monkey. Mylagaulus was horn rodent with long claws which look like gopher. This horn were used to self defense.

Question 6. What is the probable reason that the large Pleistocene mamals(eg Mastodon, Mammoth, faint ground sloth) disappeared from Oregon 11.000 years ago?

Solution: The changing climate of the weather is the main reason to disappeared of mamals from Pleistocene era. And others factors are human kill, result of comet impact.