This week I have a nice, simple skull from the Dead Zoo for you to have a go at identifying:
I think there’s enough information here to work out the species – I hope you have fun trying to figure it out!
Friday mystery object #417
Zygoma
Adventures in natural history collections
Zygoma 
Hey! look up in the sky…..
General shape suggestive of deer, etc … but UPPER INCISORS!
Combination of features seems to rule out all the obvious EUtherian orders. Bigfootidae?
(Note holes in palate, and in-turned angle of denture. I’m pretty sure of the infraclass. For family, it looks very much like an image on the WWWeb. Narrowing it down to species may take a while: thank you for including the ruler for size!)
There are a lot of species to choose from, but could it be a Giant Bigfoot?
(Having noticed a lot of little holes in the palate… This skull lacks the BIG holes in the palate that many Metath. have. Including at least one congener of the species I’ve guessed.)
big skippy from down under, the red one
I thought I had made a comment about the rocking chair lower jaw… but now I don’t see it. Arrrggg I am seeing red now.
Well, I had guessed (without looking at enough to be confident) the gray one. Seeing comments from Wouter and Katedmonson…
The shape of the lower margin of the lower jaw looks a bit more greyish than reddish to me. But on the basis of half a dozen or fewer skull photos on the WWWeb… I’m still not really sure.