... Diplocaulus from the early Permian of the midwestern United States . In adults , the back corners of the skull were ... Diplocaulus would have got stuck in their throats . An experimental engineering study has suggested another function ...

... Diplocaulus skull, dorsal (A) and ventral (B) views. Abbreviations are: eo = exoccipital, op = opisthotic, p = parietal, pp = postparietal, pt = pterygoid, q = quadrate, qj = quadratojugal, sq =squamosal, t = tabular. Olson (1951) ...

... Diplocaulus lived about 280 million years ago . It was one of a group of animals that had oddly shaped heads . Scientists are puzzled by Diplocaulus's head because there is no obvious reason for it to be shaped that way . The horns may ...

... Diplocaulus lässt sich nach den von COPE und mir an Diplocaulus magnicornis COPE , Diplocaulus limbatus COPE , Diplocaulus salamandroides COPE , Diplocaulus Copei sp . nov . , Diplo- caulus pusillus sp . nov . angestellten ...

... Diplocaulus was too much of a mouthful to swallow . Diplocaulus belonged to the lepospondyls , a mixed group perhaps including the ancestors of lissamphibians , the modern amphibians . Name Diplocaulus Pronunciation DIP - loe - KAW ...

... Diplocaulus spent much of its life on the riverbed . Short , wide body may have allowed Diplocaulus to lie unnoticed on the riverbed DIPLOCAULUS Scientific name : Diplocaulus Size : 3 ft ( 1 m ) long Diet : Fish , other vertebrates ...

... Diplocaulus . Of structural differences between Diplocaulus and Batrachider- peton , they are of two sorts : primitive characters of Batrachider- peton , which we should expect in an ancestor of Diplocaulus , and those characters which ...