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

Scale 1:35 - 178 x 109 x 80 mm H

pero se consideran factores como cambios climáticos

agile hindlimbs

high-browing herbivores

Desmostylus hesperus Ichthyosaurus being a freshwater aquatic predatorDesmostylus 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