#endothiodon

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Endothiodon is waiting for your responds.

Endothiodon is a crazy dicynodont, it had a periscope for it's pineal eye. Some specimens appear to have taken it into literal dickhead territory. We have no idea why they did it.

[dromaeosaurid]

"Within a temperate forest beneath a Glossopteris tree, a gorgonopsid, Lycaenops, guards over its prey, a dicynodont, Endothiodon. The approximate length of Lycaenops is 1.2 m (4 ft), and Endothiodon 1.1 m (3 1/2 ft)."

From Dinosaurs: A Global View (1990) by Sylvia J. Czerkas & Stephen A. Czerkas. Illustrated by Douglas Henderson, Mark Hallett, John Sibbick.

[allosuchus]

"Contrast in size among ancestors of mammals"

Endothiodon (larger, above) and Emydops (below, smaller) from The America Museum Journal, 1913

[daily-mspaint-paleoart]

01/08/2025 Endothiodon

[scientificillustration]

Late Permian of Tanzania at the time of deposition of the Usili Formation.

Life restoration of Aenigmastropheus parringtoni (foreground), and herd of the dicynodont Endothiodon being pursued by a gorgonopsian. All these vertebrates were found together at the type locality of Aenigmastropheus parringtoni (locality B35). Drawing by Emilio López-Rolandi. 

See also: Emilio López-Rolandi on Deviantart and Emilio López-Rolandi Dinosaur Art

Source: The Origin and Early Evolution of Sauria: Reassessing the Permian Saurian Fossil Record and the Timing of the Crocodile-Lizard Divergence by Martín D. Ezcurra mail,Torsten M. Scheyer, Richard J. Butler PLoS ONE 9(2): e89165. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0089165