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Order Therapsida

BIARMOSUCHUS
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Meaning Of Name: Crocodile from Biarmia, an ancient country in the Perm region.
Classification: THERAPSIDA; Eotheriodontia; Family Biarmosuchidae
Age: Late Permian, Zone I, 225 million years ago
Locality: Ocher, Perm Region, Russia
Cast Size: 75cm in length

This mammal-like reptile had canine's , incisors and cheek teeth of different shape m as well as teeth on the palate.

Represented is the skeleton of a small predator in the Eotheriodontia, the most primitive of the mammal-like reptiles.

The specimen was preserved in flood channel sandstone that was deposited it in a river flowing off the young and growing Ural Mountains.

The slender nature of the limbs of this mammal-like reptile suggest that it was a very a pie animal. Like Eotitanosuchus olsoni, its skull shows the small, primitive temporal opening behind the eye that is characteristic of the most ancient of therapsid (mammal-like) reptiles.