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Published: 2015-02-17 12:24:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 7020; Favourites: 237; Downloads: 33
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I mean there's 50 million years between Dimetrodon and the first dinosaurs... come on, people.Anyway, if he isn't one, then what is he? Well, Dimetrodon is a sail-backed pelycosaur from the Permian. He also belongs to the synapsids, a group often called mammal-like reptiles, making them the ancestors of mammals.Β
Dimetrodon is about three meters long and a real carnivore. What's special about him is that he mostly preyed on sharks ans other fishes as new discoveries have pointed out because there were more predators than prey in Dimetrodon's time. The carnivores had to search for alternative meat than that of land animals.
A while ago I also read something about him probably being nocturnal as an examination of the bones in his eyes has made clear.Β
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Nice! Though you made one error in the desc. Dimterodon wasn't a therapsid. Therapsids are a much more advanced form of synapsid, and were fully endothermic as evidenced by their bone structures. Examples are Moschops, inostrancevia, diictodon, etc. Dimterodon was still a pretty basal synapsid, along with Edaphosaurus.
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Ah, that must've been a mistake. Back then I mixed those terms up quite often.
I'll edit that.
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No problem.
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Well, you can't say the more mammalian reconstructions everyone does nowadays are accurate either. I expect it in real life to have been somewhere in between the two. With maybe some hairs.
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yeah, I think I am mainly talking about colors, as the colors look to reptilian
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Depends a bit on wether it still had scales or not.
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I'mm pretty sure it had scales on it's underside
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Yeah, there are imprints of it I believe.Β
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i know a relative had them
but i can't point fingers
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nO itz i a dino Δ±t old(jk needed to troll badly)
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The shark bite not only is based on evidence but also proves just because something is a piscivore does not mean it or its prey isn't a badass or that it eats small, weak prey and is weak itself.
I would really like to see a Spinosaurus with a major wound inflicted by a sawfish rostrum....
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Plus piscivore doesn't mean it only eats fish.Β
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That too, but T. rex fanboys just can't get a clue despite the countless ancient and modern examples.
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I am proud to have these guys as our relative. ^_^
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It looks like the Dimetro from Walking With Monsters.
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Thank you
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Love the colouration and the face is so junky!
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Yeah, wanted to fleshen him out more
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Fleshy Dimetrodons ftw!
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I love the coloration you've drawn on this guy. <3
I've had a fondness for this not-a-dinosaur-stop-calling-me-that ever since I got one in a game. XD You just don't see animals like this anymore!
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pfft, if only timeline difference! It was synapsida, while Dinosauria where diapsids. THAT'S the point there
Such a lovely drawing of reptilian fancy colors <3
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Thank you
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wow. that is an amazing color pattern. nice job.
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Thank you
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Yeah it was geologically older than the first dinosaur and it's actually more related to mammals, including U.S. humans, than Tyrannosaurus rex!
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Very true. It ain't no Dinosaur, it's distantly related to us Humans!
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One of my favorite animals!
This is a really cool take on Dimetrodon. The lips and fleshed-out body make it look so much more like a real animal than those shrink-wrapped pelycosaurs you see.
I really like the scar on its foreleg, and how you gave it a striped tail. (I drew a striped-tailed Dimetrodon quite a while ago too (Girl and Dimetrodon ). I think it's about time I redrew it though. XD )
Oh, and I'd love to read that paper about Dimetrodon preying on sharks, if you can find it. That's news to me! C:
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The scar is from that shark-hunting thing: there are lots of Dimetrodon fossils with healed bites from the primitive sharks they hunted:Β www.livescience.com/48387-permβ¦
Also here's the nocturnal life style:Β www.iflscience.com/plants-and-β¦
Ah, yes that one. Your Dimetrodon has really cool markings
And the drawing is even in dark light, looks like you made an accurate depiction of Dimetrodon before we even knew about it xD
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Wow, such interesting readings! They really were very cool creatures. That one article paints a totally different picture, with Dimetrodon eating everything it runs across - even its own kind! :0
Makes me want to draw some synapsids now! XD
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Uhu, they really were top of the food chain back then.
Same here, I need more of them in my gallery xD
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Hmmm...maybe that's what I'll draw during today's chat...
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Oh, is there a chat? At what time is it?
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Is the journal not being sent to members? That's bad... :0
Chat - heads-up!Today at noon-thirty MST there will be a Pangearas chat! (That's in an hour. 
Make sure to be there with you ideas and enthusiasm!
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It did, it did. Forgot to check my watch messages before answering. Sorry, it's sent to everyone xD
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