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Jonkeria

author: Walter B. Myers/Novapix

reference: t-din00-30031

Image Size 300 DPI: 51 * 28 cm

12-foot-long 500 pound dinocephalian therapsids of the genus Jonkeria pause in a shallow stream in a dry mid-Permian landscape 262 million years ago in what is today South Africa. Vegetation includes various ferns. Jonkeria was large mammal-like reptile with a stout pig-like build. Paleontologists haven't been able to determine whether Jonkeria was an herbivore, carnivore, or possibly like modern pigs an omnivore.

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2014 - AFRICA - ANIMAL - EARTH - FAUNA - HISTORY OF EARTH - ILLUSTRATION - JONKERIA - PALEOZOIC - PERMIAN - POSTER - SYNAPSID - THERAPSID -