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But this is about the Carboniferous, about 40 million years before the first dinosaurs.
by card_zero 1y ago
But this is about the Carboniferous, about 40 million years before the first dinosaurs.
- oblio 1y agoAh, my mistake. Do you happen to have a link to this? I didn't know about other giant reptiles, except for the dinosaurs.
- card_zero 1y agoWhat sort of a link would you like, perhaps this? https://archive.org/details/Vertebrate.Paleontology.Evolution/page/n168/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/Vertebrate.Paleontology.Evolutio... That's on chapter 9, "The Conquest of Land and the Radiation of Amphibians". Caution, this is a book from 1988, the Carboniferous era may have changed a lot since then. (Carboniferous = Mississippian + Pennsylvanian.) An image search for "Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles" may also be gratifying. I'm fond of Moschops ("calf face"), though that's after the Carboniferous rainforest collapse.
- oblio 1y agoThose links work great, thank you! Turns out, life is weird and exciting and really old!