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Color information, whether in the composition of the skin of the animal or in its genes, rarely, if ever, survives several million years of fossilizatoin. It is basically up to educated guesses, relying on known traits of the most similar modern species (plural).
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Can you give me A RELATIVE OF THE LYSTROSAURUS?
A Lystrosaurus was a tetrapod that lived during the late Permian period. The Lystrosaurus is a distant relative of today's mammals.
Is the lystrosaurus nocturnal or diurnal?
nocturnal
How long was the lystrosaurus alive?
as long as a human
Why is the Lystrosaurus called a 'shovel reptile'?
it burrows into the ground with its barrelled chest
When did the lystrosaurus went extinct?
Lystrosaurus went extinct at the end of triassic in the triassic-jurrasic extintion event at 200 million years ago during the break up of the supercontinent pangea with the alongside with the armoured archosaurs and some achosaurs and the dinosaurs take over the world in the early jurrasic.
Which one lived in Antarctica earlier the labyrinthodont the lystrosaurus or the duck-billed dinosaur?
The labyrinthodont was 359-237 million years ago, lystrosaurus was 298.9-257.9 million years ago, and the duck billed dinosaur was 69 million years ago. That makes the labyrinthodont older.
What was the lystrosaurus?
lysttrosaurus was a medium sized reptile with two short tusks, it is in a class called the dyconadonts which became extinct at the end of the triassic period, and may be an adept swimmer. it is a herbivore, and it's fossils are found even in remote places like antartica.
Which continents hold fossils of lystrosaurus cynognathus mososarus and the glossopteris?
it was found on two continents, including antarctica and south america.
What were edward drinker cope great discoveries?
Dinosaurs such as Elasmosaurus, Laelaps, Champsaurus, Lystrosaurus, Amphicoelias and more that I haven't researched on yet.
What landmasses did lystrosaurus live?
It lived by grass and water trees and other thing that it could hind in to bled in with....hope this helps...
What was significant about the lystrosaurus findings?
Lystrosaurus was strictly a terrestrial animal, but its fossils were found in South Africa, China, India, and even Antarctica. This means that those areas were once connected, proving that the continents were once joined together and that they slowly move.
What is a fossil that was found on different continents and was used to support the theory of continental drift?
1 mesosaur 2 cygnonathus 3 glossopteris 4 lystrosaurus
