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Description
Hadrodon ssp
Name meaning: “large tooth”
Height: 5 feet
Length: 10 feet
Weight: 1 ton
Diet: herbivore
Habitat: Karoo formation
Region: South Africa
Era: late Triassic (215-206 mya)

In 2022, paleontologists went to the Karoo formation in South Africa and discovered a single skull of a large dicynodont with walrus like tusks. They dubbed the new genus Hadrodon or “large tooth”. A few months later, the same group of paleontologists went back to the formation and found multiple partial skeletons. Adults, subadults, juveniles; at least 25 individuals were found in the same location. An indicator that they possibly lived in herds. The cause of their deaths is unknown.
Hadrodon was a mid sized browser that belongs to a family of synapsids called
Kannemeyeriiformes, a largely Triassic herbivorous group. These creatures coexisted with the earliest dinosaurs, primitive pterosaurs, other synapsids, and various archosaurs. Rauisuchians and phytosaurs are their main threats, so in order to defend themselves; they possess large tusks as a deterrent. These tusks are used for defense and mating display. From what we know from modern species, male Hadrodons possibly possessed the longest tusks.
They went extinct 206 mya. The cause of their demise was possibly caused by competition with new types of dinosaurs and extensive volcanic activity. They were simply unable to keep up and they eventually went extinct entirely.

Description
Hadrodon ssp
Name meaning: “large tooth”
Height: 5 feet
Length: 10 feet
Weight: 1 ton
Diet: herbivore
Habitat: Karoo formation
Region: South Africa
Era: late Triassic (215-206 mya)

In 2022, paleontologists went to the Karoo formation in South Africa and discovered a single skull of a large dicynodont with walrus like tusks. They dubbed the new genus Hadrodon or “large tooth”. A few months later, the same group of paleontologists went back to the formation and found multiple partial skeletons. Adults, subadults, juveniles; at least 25 individuals were found in the same location. An indicator that they possibly lived in herds. The cause of their deaths is unknown.
Hadrodon was a mid sized browser that belongs to a family of synapsids called
Kannemeyeriiformes, a largely Triassic herbivorous group. These creatures coexisted with the earliest dinosaurs, primitive pterosaurs, other synapsids, and various archosaurs. Rauisuchians and phytosaurs are their main threats, so in order to defend themselves; they possess large tusks as a deterrent. These tusks are used for defense and mating display. From what we know from modern species, male Hadrodons possibly possessed the longest tusks.
They went extinct 206 mya. The cause of their demise was possibly caused by competition with new types of dinosaurs and extensive volcanic activity. They were simply unable to keep up and they eventually went extinct entirely.