Apr 15, 2022
I really liked that front and centre of the paleontology hall at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde were not dinosaur skeletons, but three synapsids. Much of the rock in the area is red sandstone from the Permian and Triassic (in fact I noticed while hiking in the Pfälzerwald that even the molehills were red!) so there’s been plenty of our own stem-relatives found here. These three are Dimetrodon, Gorgonops, and Tetragonias.