MESOSAURIA

Poland 1965
Mesosaurus
Mesosaurus
(Mesosauridae)
(MESOSAURIA)


Mesosaurus of Mesosauria is the lizard which appeared in the sea in the Permian. Mesosaurus has the tail which resembled the long body and crocodile like a snake at length 70cm thickly, and there are four feet. When a tooth of the cone type mushroomed to the chin of the top and bottom, and there was the structure that seemed to be a hinge so that the central part of the lower jaw got together and was able to open a mouth full, the power that it was impossible did not suffer from the bone of the chin.

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