Stegotetrabelodon syrticus Variant:Hand painted vestigial wings

vestigial wings

Su dieta consistía principalmente en peces grandes

sus extremidades eran alargadas y tenía una estructura más erguida en comparación con los cocodrilos modernos

Snout-tail length 75 mm

y representa uno de los géneros más conocidos del grupo de los paquicefalosáuridos

Stegotetrabelodon syrticus Variant:Hand painted vestigial wingsDuring the late Miocene and early Pliocene, African ecosystems underwent significant ecological and faunal transitions, most notably the diversification of proboscideans, a group that includes modern elephants and their extinct ancestors. In this paleobiological context, Stegotetrabelodon syrticus represents an important transitional taxon within elephantine evolution, displaying a combination of primitive and derived morphological characters that