Cacops
Sign in to saveCacops ("ugly look" for its strange appearance), is a genus of dissorophid temnospondyls from the Kungurian stage of the early Permian of the United States. Cacops is one of the few olsoniforms (dissorophids and the larger trematopids) whose ontogeny is known. Cacops fossils were almost exclusively known from the Cacops Bone Bed of the Lower Permian Arroyo Formation of Texas for much of the 20th century. New material collected from the Dolese Brothers Quarry, near Richards Spur, Oklahoma in the past few decades has been recovered, painting a clearer picture of what the animal looked and acted
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Cacops es un género extinto de temnospóndilo que vivió a finales del período Pérmico, en lo que hoy es Norteamérica. Medía casi 40 cm de longitud, presentando un cuerpo y cola cortos, sumado a una doble fila de placas a modo de armadura en la región dorsal, extremidades fuertes (que permiten inferir un comportamiento terrestre) y un cráneo robusto el cual estaba provisto de un enorme tímpano. Edwin Colbert sugirió que podría tratarse de un animal nocturno, como las ranas modernas.
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