Description
Mycterosaurus longiceps
- Mycterosaurus longiceps
- Varanopsid pelycosaur
- Lower Permian Age
- Richards Spur, Oklahoma
- This vertebrae measures .51″ long and will also come in a 1.25″ gem jar
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In spite of being only 2 feet long and weighing a few pounds this primitive pelycosaurs was comparable in appearance to todays modern monitor lizards. However they are only distantly related. Unlike monitor lizards this critter inhabited swamplands and as a result most likely fed on insects as well as small animals. In the same way as all pelycosaurs they went extinct at the end of the Permian.
