How can you describe Cynognathus?
Cynognathus is an extinct mammal-like reptile. The name literally means ‘dog jaw’. Cynognathus was as large as a modern wolf and lived during the early to mid Triassic period (250 to 240 million years ago). It is found as fossils only in South Africa and South America.
What did Cynognathus look like?
Cynognathus was approximately as large as a modern wolf and, like the wolf, was an active predator. The body of Cynognathus was not massively constructed. The tail was short, and the limbs were tucked well under and close to the body, providing the potential for rapid and efficient locomotion.
What type of organism is Cynognathus?
The Triassic: Cynognathus Cynognathus were relatively large terrestrial predators that had mammalian and reptilian-like features. According to fossil records these extinct tetrapodal organisms grew to about two meters in length (NHM 2010).
Is a Cynognathus a dinosaur?
Cynognathus was a cynodont (a mammal-like reptile, not a dinosaur) that was the size of a wolf. This therapsid lived on open plains during the early to middle Triassic period, roughly 230-245 million years ago.
Can the Cynognathus swim?
Cynognathus and Lystrosaurus were land reptiles and were unable to swim. Grooves and rock deposits left by ancient glaciers are found today on different continents very close to the equator.
How tall is a Cynognathus?
around 1.2 metres
What did a Cynognathus eat?
Kannemeyeria
What did the Cynognathus evolve into?
Home on the Range in Gondwana Cynognathus evolved in the early Triassic Period (which began 251 million years ago). The animals lived across much of the southern hemisphere landmass known as Gondwana, the southern half of the supercontinent called Pangaea.
What is the last living thing on earth?
tardigrade
Has the first person to live to 200 been born?
The oldest verified person living today – the current front-runner in the longevity race – is Kane Tanaka, who was born in Fukuoka, Japan, on January 2, 1903. She is 118 years old. If Kane Tanaka survives to age 200, making the answer ‘yes’, this will be in the year 2103.