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Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi - archegosauroid from Middle Permian of Russia. This exemplar is about 1 m long (based on full skeleton from PIN museum).Related content
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Are pycnodontids th fishes in the background? or simply random ones?
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Originally name was "Platyops" (preoccuped) - "flat face".
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It's an archegosaur, older name - "Platyops", close relative of Prionosuchus. By the way, according some Russian sources, this animals can be over 2,5 m long! It's smaller than Prionosuchus, but big temnospondyl. Platyoposaurs lived in rivers and so named "very shallow seas" (VSS)on East European placket in Permian.
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And they fed on fish or whoever they could wrap their jaws around?
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They fed only in the water (gharial-like), so it can eat fish and small aquatic tetrapods
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