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.
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