#eogyrinus

[antiqueanimals]

Eogyrinus. From Prehistoric Animals, written/illustrated by William E. Scheele. 1954.

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[palaeopedia]

The dawn Tadpole, Eogyrinus (1926)

Phylum : Chordata Superclass : Tetrapoda Class : Amphibia Superorder : Reptiliomorpha Order : Anthracosauria Suborder : Embolomeri Family : Eogyrinidae Genus : Eogyrinus Species : E. attheyi

Late Cretaceous (311,7 - 306,5 Ma)

4,5 m long and 500 kg (size)

Northern England (map)

Eogyrinus attheyi (from Greek eos, meaning "dawn", andgyrinos, meaning "tadpole") was one of the largestCarboniferous tetrapods, and perhaps one of the largest of its family, Eogyrinidae, at 4.6 metres in length.

Eogyrinus appears to have been a powerful swimmer that moved quickly through the water by swishing its long tail from side to side. It may have been a predator, lying in wait for prey in much the same way as a modern crocodile. It was a lightly built animal, weighing around 560 kilograms. Although probably better at hunting in the water, Eogyrinus could probably have also made a grab for prey passing close by on land.

Recent studies by Jennifer A. Clack suggest that theamphibian Pholiderpeton described by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869 is the same animal as Eogyrinus. If this is so, then Pholiderpeton's name takes priority.

[antediluvianechoes]

In the Swampy Forest of the Carboniferous Period, Konstantin Flerov

The humidity feels like a great hand pressing down on the swamp. Leaves and fronds droop, already weary before sunrise. Below, Eogyrinus is less soured by the heat, though his actions belie this. His skin glistens, the yellow throat pulses with each breath, and puny legs drag and shove the slinking hulk through the heat like an oily bullhead rolling across a sandbar, or an injured man crawling through wreckage by his fingers, or a Lovecraftian slug slithering over an ancient shipwreck.