Jun 6, 2025
"Nestled on the water's bottom of silt and plant debris are juvenile and adult Diplocaulus with a coiled Lysorophus. Both Lysorophus and juvenile Diplocaulus were amphibians which could burrow within the mud and aestivate to survive droughts until rains replenished their water-holes. However, in addition to being too large, the expanded crescent-shaped skulls of adult Diplocaulus prevented them from being able to burrow and survive by aestivating. Lysorophus reached lengths of 60 cms (2 ft) and full grown Diplocaulus were as much as 1 m (3 ft) long."
From Dinosaurs: A Global View (1990) by Sylvia J. Czerkas & Stephen A. Czerkas. Illustrated by Douglas Henderson, Mark Hallett, John Sibbick.
