Synapsid
Cotylorhynchus
It was one of the large land vertebrates of its time.
The tiny head of Cotylorhynchus contrasts with its enormous barrel-shaped trunk.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Cotylorhynchus at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Permian
- Group
- Caseidae
- Caseids
- Fossil locations
- Texas, Oklahoma
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Cotylorhynchus
Its head was tiny in relation to the enormous barrel-shaped trunk. That body is interpreted as space for a digestive system capable of processing abundant plant matter.
It was one of the great terrestrial vertebrates of its time. The volume of the body is interpreted as space to process abundant plant matter. This relationship between food and body shape helps to understand a silhouette that is not very similar to current herbivores.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.A note on the science
It was one of the great terrestrial vertebrates of its time. The volume of the body is interpreted as space to process abundant plant matter. This relationship between food and body shape helps to understand a silhouette that is not very similar to current herbivores.
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- Cotylorhynchus
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- Cotylorhynchus
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- Caseidae
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- The mammalian lineage
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