Your Daily Dinosaur: Dicynodont Therapsid from the Ancient Peoples Living In Peru, South America-Could Science be Off Approximately 267,993,000 Years?
by Chris Parker, s8int.com

Photo 1:

The identity of this animal portrait was unknown apparently and thus it was given the general description “animal effigy” by the Harvard Peabody Museum.

Was this animal purely a mythological one seen only in the imaginary eye of the artist—or was it seen with the artist’s actual eyes?

As you will see, the depiction of the living therapsid-if that is what it is- several centuries ago- is actually close enough to modern depictions of these types of creatures as to be readily identified. Note that “modern” depictions are done completely from mostly disarticulated bones).

In appearance, it is close to that of therapsids such as moschops which we know from fossils found mostly in South Africa. Other types of therapsid fossils such as Lystrosaurus have been found in South America.

According to Wikipedia;
Moschops (Greek for “calf face”) is an extinct genus of therapsid that lived in the Guadalupian epoch, around 268-260 million years ago. Therapsids are synapsids which were at one time the dominant land animals. It was around 2.7 metres (8 ft 10 in) long.. ….Moschops was heavily built, and had short, chisel-like teeth for cropping vegetation. Moschops mostly ate plants, but sometimes ate meat. The forelegs sprawled outwards, like those of a modern lizard, but the hind legs were under the body, like those of a mammal.” Wikipedia

The Peabody description of the pottery, “effigy” artifact is as follows:
Peabody Number: 46-77-30/5868
Display Title: Pottery animal figurine
Descriptions: Inventory Description: Ceramic whistle, animal effigy
Classification: Whistle
Department: Archaeological
Geography/Provenience:
South America/Peru/La Libertad Region///Sausal
Materials: Ceramic

Ancient cultures from the region which could have produced the artifact are the Chimu Culture 900 A.D. to 1400 A.D. or the Moche Culture 1 B.C. to 800 B.C.

Photo 2:
Here we show the ancient, ceramic artifact in comparison to moschops and to another dicynodont therapsid. Moschops and therapsids similar to him supposedly went extinct before the dinosaurs even evolved.

Photo 3: The ancient Peruvian artifact with extinct, and similar “pre-dinosaur” “Sic”,”dinosaur- like mammals”.

Clearly, if this ancient Peruvian artifact represents one of these creatures something is extremely wrong with the evolutionary time- scale. Could SCIENCE off by more than 268 million years?

No doubt!

The paradigm is a terrible thing to waste!

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