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Some people might ask "If I were to travel through time, how will I know that I'm in the Triassic?" Well, the answer is rather simple. Imagine that you are in a place that is a weird mix of desert and forest. There are tall trees and ferns, but there's no grass. You are taking a stroll, and you notice a herd of large, hairy hog-like creatures eating roots and tubers. You would think "Oh look, something familiar!" But suddenly, one of them turns and looks at you, and you realize "Aw shit, it has a beak and tusks and shit what the actual hell! What kind of sick freak of nature is this?" That, my friends, is how you know that you are in the Triassic.
Dicynodonts were indeed a strange bunch of synapsids. Many species were likely covered in a pelt of hair or fur, giving them an appearance akin to a mammal, albeit with a sprawled gait. However, all dicynodont species possessed a keratinous beak and a pair of curved tusks. This made dicynodonts in general look rather mismatched in appearance. Dicynodonts were either omnivorous or herbivorous, and were a very successful and biodiverse group. They lived all the way from the late Permian to the end of the Triassic, though recent fossil discoveries have revealed the possibility of dicynodonts living during the early Cretaceous. Thoughout their existence, dicynodonts have evolved many shapes and sizes, from small rat-sized burrowers to large ox-sized browsers. Among the most famous generae of dicynodont was the hippo-sized Placerias, a dicynodont that lived during the late Triassic. Dicynodonts shared their homes with archosaurs, cynodonts (a sister taxon to the dicynodonts that were the ancestors of the very first true mammals), and later dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Though being herbivores, the dicynodonts did in fact get preyed upon by their neighbors.

Description
Some people might ask "If I were to travel through time, how will I know that I'm in the Triassic?" Well, the answer is rather simple. Imagine that you are in a place that is a weird mix of desert and forest. There are tall trees and ferns, but there's no grass. You are taking a stroll, and you notice a herd of large, hairy hog-like creatures eating roots and tubers. You would think "Oh look, something familiar!" But suddenly, one of them turns and looks at you, and you realize "Aw shit, it has a beak and tusks and shit what the actual hell! What kind of sick freak of nature is this?" That, my friends, is how you know that you are in the Triassic.
Dicynodonts were indeed a strange bunch of synapsids. Many species were likely covered in a pelt of hair or fur, giving them an appearance akin to a mammal, albeit with a sprawled gait. However, all dicynodont species possessed a keratinous beak and a pair of curved tusks. This made dicynodonts in general look rather mismatched in appearance. Dicynodonts were either omnivorous or herbivorous, and were a very successful and biodiverse group. They lived all the way from the late Permian to the end of the Triassic, though recent fossil discoveries have revealed the possibility of dicynodonts living during the early Cretaceous. Thoughout their existence, dicynodonts have evolved many shapes and sizes, from small rat-sized burrowers to large ox-sized browsers. Among the most famous generae of dicynodont was the hippo-sized Placerias, a dicynodont that lived during the late Triassic. Dicynodonts shared their homes with archosaurs, cynodonts (a sister taxon to the dicynodonts that were the ancestors of the very first true mammals), and later dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Though being herbivores, the dicynodonts did in fact get preyed upon by their neighbors.