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Estemmenosuchus mirabilis waterside

author: Walter B. Myers/Novapix

reference: t-din00-30102

Image Size 300 DPI: 34 * 25 cm

Resembling modern day hippopotami, three Estemmenosuchus mirabilis face off in a Paleozoic lake 255 million years ago in what is today the Perm region of Russia near the Ural Mountains. About the size of a modern adult bull, Estemmenosuchus mirabilis was a plant-eating early ancestor of today's mammals.

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2010 - ANIMAL - EARTH - ESTEMMENOSUCHUS - FAUNA - HISTORY OF EARTH - ILLUSTRATION - LAKE - PALEOZOIC - PERMIAN - RUSSIA - SYNAPSID - THERAPSID -