Correlating bones in other animals are colored the same, so you can really see just how bizarre their anatomy was. Paper https://www.cell.com/current-biology/comments/S0960-9822(16)30878-8
This one isn't a dinosaur. /c/paleontology would be better imo. You could also do paleo climate stuff to then.
what if we called it c/dinosaurs because that's funnier but we all just knew it was for palentology. What do yoy think?
Using my big brain: This is clearly an anchor, used to hold the dino firmly to loose soils. I propose the beast was a filter feeder, gaining traction on the beachhead via it's outrigger-like forearms, as it waved it's big stupid head in the surf.
Skimmed the paper and it says that it pioneered digging niches that mammals would eventually fill, but it's not a synapsid. Is it actually ancestral to any modern day reptiles?
As far as we know no it isn't. The drepanosaurs are only known from the Triassic, but there's some evidence that they were very early diverging reptiles, and that it's unclear why they don't have a better record in the Permian.
it’s unclear why they don’t have a better record in the Permian.
God willing there's a whole bed of Permian specimens waiting to be found somewhere.
Whoa, that's so weird. You have to imagine, with no good living analogues, that any reconstructions are extremely speculative.
