First Reptiles
Were reptiles much more adapted for living on land than amphibians?
What is yes?
Were Synapsids tetrapods?
What is yes?
Was Dimetrodon a dinosaur?
What is no?
What was the biggest ever known crocodile?
What is Sarcosuchus?
What were Snake’s ancestors?
What is lizards?
What does Hylonomus mean?
What is “forest dweller”?
What were later Synapsids called?
What is therapsids?
How tall was the black sail that extended from Dimetrodon?
What is 6.5 ft?
What does Sarcosuchus mean?
What is “flesh crocodile”?
How many types of snakes are there?
What is 3,400+ species?
Where did Hylonomus live?
What is forests (on the edge of lakes and rivers)?
What were the first synapsids called?
What is pelycosaurs?
How long did Dimetrodon grow to?
What is 10 ft?
How long was Sarcosuchus?
What is 39 ft?
What is the biggest ever known snake?
What is Titanoboa?
Where have some fossil remains of Hylonomus been found?
What is stumps of club moss trees?
When did Synapsids first appear?
What is the Carboniferous period?
What were the names of the tall, thin rods of bone extending from the backbone or vertebrae of Dimetrodon?
What is neural spines?
What was the lifespan of Sarcosuchus?
What is 60+ years?
How did early snakes kill their prey?
What is they squeezed them to death?
In what period did the first reptiles evolve from amphibians?
What is the Carboniferous period?
When did Synapsids become the dominant land animals?
What is the Permian period?
When did Dimetrodon live?
What is the Permian period?
In what time period did Sarcosuchus live in?
What is the Cretaceous period?
When did Snakes first appear (mya)?
What is 120-110 mya?