Kapetus ( lat. Capetus palustris ) - primitive dark- pond coal age .
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 Capetus palustris (reconstruction) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Capetus palustris |
Description
Known primarily for fragments of skulls . A large animal, with a skull up to 40 cm long, the total length could be more than 1.6 meters. The skull resembles an alligator 's skull - with a not very long rounded muzzle, rather tall. Teeth large, few. Capetus can not be attributed to any of the families of dark spondils, since it has practically no special structural features. Judging by the skull, it was a semi-terrestrial or land predator. Described in 1938 by Stin from the Late Carboniferous (Westphal D) Nirjani deposits in the Czech Republic. The synonym is Gaudrya latistoma , the first found remains were attributed to the genera Sclerocephalus and Chelydosaurus (from eriopoids). Capetus was one of the dominant predators of his time and place. He shared a habitat with a similarly sized cochleosaur , which, nevertheless, was predominantly aquatic.