Sivatherium Skull Cast
Sivatherium Skull Cast
3D
Published 2018-11-07T16:52:05+00:00
Unpainted cast of the skull of an extict giraffid, Sivatherium giganteum. This cast is a part of a set produced by the East India Company and acquired by museums in the mid to late 19th century.
Sivatherium ("Shiva's beast") is an extinct genus of giraffid that ranged throughout Africa to the Indian Subcontinent. The species Sivatherium giganteum is, by weight, the largest giraffidknown, and also possibly the largest ruminant of all time. The Afro-Asiatic species, S. maurusium, was once placed within the genus "Libytherium".
S. giganteum remains have been recovered from the Himalayan foothills, dating around 1,000,000 BCE. S. maurusium may have gone extinct as recently as 8,000 years ago, as depictions that greatly resemble it are known from ancient rock paintings in the Sahara and Central West India
Imaged using a canon 5DSR to provide 88 images which were then processed using agisoft photoscan at medium levels.
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This objected is scanned by Fossils in Shropshire
| Date de publication | 07/11/2018 |
| Titre | Sivatherium Skull Cast |
| Date | circa 170 million years ago |
| Dimension | 50.5cm x 27cm x 21cm |
| Localisation | Fossils in Shropshire |
