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DIMETRODON
>Name Meaning: "Two Measures of Teeth"
>Habitat: United States, Canada, Germany
>Length: 15 ft (4.5 m) [Dimetrodon grandis]
24 in (60 cm) [Dimetrodon teutonis]
>Weight: 400 lbs (181 kg) [Dimetrodon grandis]
31 lbs (14 kg) [Dimetrodon teutonis]
>Stance: Quadrupedal
>Diet: Carnivore
>Age: Permian
Dimetrodon is a genus of Synapsid from the Permian period of North America and Europe, living around 280 million years ago. Dimetrodon is known from several species with 2 present at PaleoPark, the large Dimetrodon grandis and the cat-sized Dimetrodon teutonis.
Dimetrodon is more closely related to mammals than to Dinosaurs, sometimes being referred to as a "stem-mammal"
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