dimetrodon

Classification: Synapsids, pelycosauria, sphenacodontidae

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Body length: 3 m

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Body weight: 250 kg

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Epoch: Early Permian

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Locations: USA, Germany

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Dimetrodon is often confused with dinosaurs or their period, while in truth they have been extinct for 40 million years before the first dinosaur walked in the Triassic period.

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Dimetrodon was a herbivore, living in swampy areas, it had a large head and mouth, large and strong jaw, as well as two types of teeth – sharp caniniforms and incisor teeth. It used to eat other pelycosaurs, insects and other mammals.

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It could rise from its cold and lazy habitat much earlier than the dawn than pelycosaurs ‘without the sail’, then catch them and eat them.