Eotitanosuchus
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Eotitanosuchus olsoni ("Olson's dawn titan crocodile") was a mammal-like "reptile" occurring in Ocher, in the Perm region of Russia, in channel flood deposits allong with Biarmosuchus tener, Estemmenosuchus uralensis and Estemmenosuchus mirabilis. It lived about 255 Mya and was a very large animal; although the skull usually shown is about 35 cm long, this belongs to a juvenile, it is estimated that the adult skull would be about 1 meter long.
Like Biarmosuchus tener, it was primitive in that, though it was a predator, the temple opening behind the eye was small, giving it a week bite. The temple was, however, larger at the top than in the biarmosuchians.
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Bibliography
- Chudinov, P. K. 1965, "New Facts about the Fauna of the Upper Permian of the USSR", Journal of Geology, 73:117-30
- Olsen, E. C., 1962, Late Permian terrestrial vertebrates, USA and USSR Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series, 52: 1–224.
- Patricia Vickers-Rich and Thomas H. Rich, The Great Russian Dinosaurs, Gunter Graphics, 1993, Pg 28.
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