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Name:
Common name:
Claudiosaurus germaini → Lizard, Reptile
Family / Genus / Species / Binom / Author:
Claudiosauridae → Claudiosaurus → germaini → Claudiosaurus germaini → Carroll, 1981
Location:
Age:
Upper Permian [p], Sankamena Formation / 260 million years
Size of the item:
Width: 21 cm
Thickness: 5 cm
Length: 32 cm
Size of the fossil:
Weight:
Claudiosaurus germaini was a reptile up to 60 cm long with a small head, long neck and tail. It lived on the shores of lakes or sheltered sea inlets along two rift valleys in what is now Madagascar in the late Permian—just prior to the events that killed most life on Earth at the end of the Paleozoic Era. The most puzzling feature is the skull. As with snakes, almost nothing seems to hold the skull together. The individual parts were only weakly bound and possibly not even completely ossified, which is why the skull was only preserved in exceptional cases.
