high-browing herbivores

being a freshwater aquatic predator with sharp teeth and a body prepared both to swim and to make use of its fin structures to hold on to the bottom of shallow watercourses or in soft ground near the riverbank

This genus is one of the most striking and distinctive among dinosaurs due to its unusual combination of characteristics

Width 80 mm

This dinosaur lived in what are believed to be humid regions with dense vegetation

Desmostylus hesperus Ichthyosaurus high-browing herbivoresDesmostylus hesperus was a semi aquatic marine mammal from the Miocene belonging to Desmostylia, an extinct order of mammals known exclusively from the North Pacific. Unlike sirenians, pinnipeds or cetaceans, desmostylians represented a distinct evolutionary lineage that has completely disappeared. They have traditionally been associated with Tethytheria, the broader evolutionary group that includes sirenians and proboscideans. The generic name means