Synapsid
Lystrosaurus
It had two tusks and a tough, horn-covered beak suited to cutting plants.
Lystrosaurus combined a keratin-covered beak with two tusks, giving it a head unlike those of modern mammals.
Three stages. One companion.
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Lystrosaurus 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 / Triassic
- Group
- Dicynodontia
- Dicynodonts
- Fossil locations
- Russia, Mongolia, China, India
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Lystrosaurus
It was a plant-eating dicynodont found widely across Pangaea. Its two tusks and beak gave it a very different appearance from mammals alive today.
It had two tusks and a keratin-covered beak suited to cutting plants. Its fossils occur widely across what was once Pangaea, a reminder that today’s continents were not always separated.
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.Sources & text credits
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- Lystrosaurus
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- Lystrosaurus
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- Dicynodontia
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- The mammalian lineage
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