Book of the New Sun is a masterclass in balanced storytelling because every time Severian says something wildly misogynistic, Wolfe casually drops that pyrotheria are commonly used as pack animals to sniff out mildly hallucinogenic mushrooms or some crap.

For #FossilFriday take a look at the palate and pterygoid crests of the Notoungulata (Mammalia), the richest order of South American endemic placentals by Billet (2011).

Read the full study here: doi.org/10.1080/1477...

#PaleoSky #systematics #skull #Toxodontia #Typotheria #Pyrotheria #anatomy