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Habitat: All of the Ancient Super-continent of Pangaea

Favorite Food: Extinct Ferns

Last visit to the Western Prom: 200-250 million years ago. Rhynchosaurs like Hyperodapedon were early dinosaurs that lived in the Late Triassic Period. The Earth had one giant continent then, which later divided in seven. As a consequence, Rhyncosaur fossils have been found all around the world. No dinosaur fossils have been found in Maine yet, but Rhyncosaur fossils have been found nearby in Nova Scotia, near the Bay of Fundy.

Favorite Constellations: Lacerta, the Lizard; Al-Tinneen, the Dragon; Draco, the Dragon; Al-Hirba’, the Chameleon; Chamaeleon, the Chameleon.

Rhyncosaurs are not a single species, but an order of several dinosaur species. Some Rhyncosaurs were about the size of large dogs. Others were much smaller. Because one can only tell so much from fossilized bones, scientists are never sure about what dinosaurs might have looked like. Some are thought to have had feathers and some are thought to have had scaly skin. Maybe they were covered in something completely different. Who knows? Here are some different guesses about how Rhyncosaurs might have looked, the plants they might have eaten and the world that they might have inhabited.

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