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As part of my research for this design, I looked at so many extinct creatures, mostly strange fish. Enjoy this collection of cool early Tetrapods
Names are in captions & tags. Most of these come from Wikipedia, some are from museums. If you spot something that I should credit, pls let me know. These images get reposted around so much, it's often difficult to track down the original
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Procynosuchus. Extinct protomammal and early cynodont. Late Permian (260-240 million years ago)
Credit to WillemSvdMerwe on Deviantart.
Procynosuchus delaharpeae by WillemSvdMerwe on DeviantArt
Okay, finally caught up on these. The prompt for this one was 'stem mammal', so I wound up drawing procynosuchus.
[ID: A pixel art depiction of the extinct procynosuchus, done in purple, pink, blue, and grey. The animal is climbing a small hill. /ID]
More synapsids at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde: this little restored scene from the early Triassic.
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Procynosuchus delaharpeae, a synapsid from the Late Permian (~259-252 mya). Measuring about 60cm long (2′), it was one of the earliest members of the cynodonts, the lineage that would eventually lead to mammals.
Its fossils are mostly known from southern Africa, but similar remains have also been found in Europe and Russia, suggesting it was actually quite widespread across the supercontinent of Pangaea that existed at the time.
It had a long vertically-flattened tail, strong leg muscles, and paddle-like feet -- all adaptations that suggest it was a semi-aquatic otter-like animal capable of agile swimming. It also had forward-facing eyes, giving it good binocular vision and depth perception while pursuing fish underwater.
Procynosuchus. Early cynodont that displayed features that were simultaneously reptilian and mammalian. Permian period.
Credit to rich-hammond3d. http://www.rich-hammond3d.com/content/galleries/models/procy.html
procynosuchus museum model
Skull of Procynosuchus delaharpae. Extinct cynodont. 260 million years ago.
Credit: https://www.athenapub.com/aria1/PAL/procynosuchus3.html
Procynosuchus delaharpae skull
