Lisowicia bojani

[sculptor]

mammal
299 to 251 million years ago
9 tons
hefty sucker

 

[Xelasnave.1947]

mammal
299 to 251 million years ago
9 tons
hefty sucker

Nice design☺
Ex

 

[DaveC426913]

Yeah, I saw this. I had no idea large mammals stood cheek-by-jowl with dinosaurs.

Sortta blows apart the whole 'tiny shrew-like critter' image.

 

[exchemist]

Yeah, I saw this. I had no idea large mammals stood cheek-by-jowl with dinosaurs.

Sortta blows apart the whole 'tiny shrew-like critter' image.

Yes, sort of.

Nobody is saying this was a mammal, though. It was a therapsid, an ancestor of the mammals.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapsid

The significant thing, which I had not appreciated, is that therapsids were already a lineage distinct from the dinosaur - bird lineage, right back in the Permian.

By the way, sculptor's picture bears an uncanny resemblance to one of those old man characters in the Muppets, don't you think?

 

[Michael 345]

By the way, sculptor's picture bears an uncanny resemblance to one of those old man characters in the Muppets, don't you think?

Not sure about that

To me looks like the hippo version of the duck billed platypus

Hippo parrotus

The significant thing, which I had not appreciated, is that therapsids were already a lineage distinct from the dinosaur - bird lineage, right back in the Permian.

Looks like kept the parrot beak part

 

[sideshowbob]

I see he's a pacer. Do they have tracks?