Paleontologen hebben in Zuid-Afrika een gefossiliseerd ei met embryo ontdekt van de #dicynodont Lystrosaurus die ca. 250 miljoen geleden op aarde rondliep. Het is een bewijs dat deze voorouder van de zoogdieren #eieren legde en dus jongen niet levend baarde. Met deze voortplantingsstrategie overleefde de soort mogelijk de massa-#uitsterving aan het einde van het Perm.
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/lystrosaurus-egg-14687.html

New Triassic #Dicynodont Species Discovered in Poland
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/woznikella-triradiata-11963.html

"#Dicynodonts were an important clade of herbivorous #therapsids, which originated in the #Permian and vanished in the latest #Triassic... In the Triassic, this clade ranged from miniscule animals less than half a meter long to massive species comparable in size to the largest living terrestrial #mammals"

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Day 11 #JURASSICWORLDDOMINION Advent calendar

We've got a #dicynodont !

Quite the movie scene, but great to see #Lystrosaurus show up. I actually have a little herd of these guys. Very satisfying.

Studies of Endothiodon (a dicynodont) and Pareiasaurus (a parareptile) in preparation for a commission
#paleoart #dicynodont #synapsid #parareptile #pareiasaurus #conceptsketch #sketch
Driving myself to madness today. My fossil is very fragmented, I spent most of my volunteer shift today trying to preserve a very thin sheet of skull. Uuugh. #volunteering #fossil #dicynodont #microscope #patience

Mastodon, meet Rastodon!

Fossils of this little #dicynodont were found in southern Brazil.* Many dicynodonts sported prominent tusks, but the tusks of Rastodon were tiny nubbins that curved sharply forward, all but hidden behind its beak.

A commission I did for the Life Before Dinosaurs exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

*In #Permian rocks of the Rio do Rasto Formation, hence its name.

#synapsid #paleoart #paleontology #illustration #notadinosaur