Alierasaurus
Romano and Nicosia
A barrel-shaped rib cage and a diet of very fibrous plants: this Permian giant of 6 to 7 m resembled a Texan cousin.
Photo: Emiliano Troco (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Before the dinosaurs, land belonged to the synapsids. They appeared in the Carboniferous about 310 million years ago and dominated the Permian. Their skull has a single opening behind the eye socket. Their descendants include every mammal, ourselves among them.
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Biarmosuchus
Pyotr Chudinov
A lightly built and probably agile predator, the size of a large dog. Its legs were fairly long and it fed on smaller tetrapods.
Photo: DiBgd at English Wikipedia (CC BY 2.5)
Chiniquodon
Friedrich von Huene
This carnivore of the Triassic lived alongside some of the earliest known dinosaurs. It was a cynodont, a group close to the ancestry of mammals. An adult weighed about 12 kilograms.
Photo: Nobu Tamura email:nobu.tamura@yahoo.com http://spinops.blogspot.com/ (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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