-
tougher plants than
those on
which most
other herbivorous caseids fed.
Herbivorous caseids also show very
different dietary adaptations from
those seen...
-
large number of
specimens found make it the best-known
caseid. Like all
large herbivorous caseids,
Cotylorhynchus had a
short snout sloping forward and...
-
herbivorous caseids, it had a
small head,
large barrel-shaped body, long tail, and m****ive limbs.
Angelosaurus differs from
other caseids by the extreme...
- eothyridids, were
relatively small animals. However, most
caseids reached larger sizes, and some
caseids, such as
Cotylorhynchus and Alierasaurus, were among...
-
Alierasaurus is one of the
largest known caseids. It
closely resembles Cotylorhynchus,
another giant caseid from the San
Angelo Formation in Texas. The...
- the
typical caseid skull with a
short snout tilted forward and very
large external nares. However, it
differs from
other derived caseids by its postcranial...
-
caseids were semi-aquatic has been
previously contested by
other authors. It is
geologically one of the
youngest known representatives of the
caseids...
-
large caseid synapsids that
lived in the
Kungurian Age (late
Early Permian epoch). It was
about 3
metres (9.8 ft) long, and like many
other caseids, it...
-
Oromycter was a
small caseid characterized by its dentition,
which lacked the
distinct leaf-like
serrations of
other caseids and
instead possessed broad...
- “mycter” = nose,
refers to the
enlarged external naris that
characterizes the
caseids. The
species epithet refers to
ruteni (Les Rutènes in French) the Latin...
