| Name: | Dimetrodon |
| How to Say: | Dahy-me-truh-don |
| Name Meaning: | Two measures of teeth |
| First Discovered: | 1878 |
| Size: | 15 Feet Long |
| Weight: | 500 lbs, the equivalent of 10 2nd Graders |
| How Old: | 40 Million Years Before Dinosaurs |
| Habitat: | Mostly Found in Texas and Oklahoma, One was also found in Germany |
| Diet: | Carnivore, would eat small animals |
4 Quick Facts about the Dimetrodon
- The Dimetrodon is more closely related to a modern day mammal than a reptile.
- The sail of the Dimetrodon projected from it’s vertebra.
- The function of the Dimetrodon sail is unknown, but it could possibly be to regulate temperature, used as camouflage, used as a sail while in water or to stabilize the side to side motion while walking.
- The Dimetrodon had very large teeth of different types set along it’s jaws.
Take My Dimetrodon Quiz
True or False:
The Dimetrodon is considered an extinct reptile and not a dinosaur.
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