Reptile paleontology of the most striking of all the groups, this is because the reptile is the Earth's history has been the most successful animals, and become the ruler of sea and air, and has a very large size of some members of the other is because the end of the age of reptiles and one now can not explain the mass extinction-related, giving a sense of mystery.
The early non-porous type classes and two holes the size of small lizards are common animals, but the next hole, but class size is relatively large, can be up to 3 meters. After entering the Permian, the rapid evolution of reptiles, although this time has not yet been referred to as the era of reptiles, but reptiles have flourished as much as amphibians. Early Permian under the hole to the original dragon type class, in which huge carnivorous Dimetrodon dimetrodon (left) and a huge base of herbivorous dragon edaphosaurus have a huge fan back, and regulation of body temperature may related. The late Permian animals under the hole for the hole class class, these classes are very diverse animal holes, was the advantage of animals, including the Permian, the largest animal on land, also a member of some smaller, some are carnivorous, but some are herbivorous, some members already have a lot of similar characteristics with mammals. Permian category includes non-porous glass dragon and the dragon are two groups, there are also uncertain of the type of the ancestors of turtles. Cup Dragon more categories, meat and plant-eating members of both, the dragon is a small aquatic reptiles, which distributed more widely, as evidence of continental drift. Permian representatives of significant holes small class, it is worth mentioning that air-tailed Lizard coelurosauravus (right) side of the body similar to modern flying lizards birth of film, you can glide in the air, although the fly can not be true , but this is the first time into the sky reptiles. Permian, the Earth has experienced the largest mass extinction, many of the old groups declared extinct, and many exciting new groups such as the stage of history.
New generation of reptiles in general and modern types of similar, but there are a few noteworthy species. In the third century when a class tend to live on land of crocodiles, crocodile known as Antoine, their teeth have a carnivorous dinosaur with similar characteristics, initially was thought to be remnants of some dinosaurs generation. In the Pleistocene, the existence of a class of Australia's large monitor lizards, the largest monitor lizards than modern Komodo dragon still much larger, is Australia's largest predator size were they to a very late declaration of extinction, its Perhaps the arrival of extinction and human-related. |
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