Edaphosaurus - Amersfoort, NL
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A Edaphosaurus in Dinopark Zoo Amersfoort located at 224 Barchman Wuytierslaan in Amersfoort, The Netherlands.
Waymark Code: WMWRRG
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Date Posted: 10/08/2017
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A Edaphosaurus in Dinopark Zoo Amersfoort.
Dinoland is a part of this Zoo and can NOT be visit separate.
Wikipedia (
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Edaphosaurus, meaning "pavement lizard" for dense clusters of teeth) is a genus of extinct edaphosaurid synapsid that lived around 300 to 280 million years ago, during the late Carboniferous to early Permian periods.
Edaphosaurus is important as one of the earliest known large plant-eating (herbivorous) amniote tetrapods (four-legged land-living vertebrates). In addition to the large tooth plates in its jaws, the most characteristic feature of Edaphosaurus is a sail on its back. A number of other synapsids from the same time period also have tall dorsal sails, most famously the large apex predator Dimetrodon. However, the sail on Edaphosaurus is different in shape and morphology. The first fossils of Edaphosaurus came from the Texas Red Beds in North America, with later finds in New Mexico, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Ohio. Fragmentary fossils attributed to Edaphosaurus also have been found in the Czech Republic and in Germany in Central Europe.
Their website (
visit link) reads:
In DinoPark Amersfoort you make a journey over time and you are right in a bunch of dinos! Discover over seventy life-sized dinosaurs, test if you're faster than the dangerous T-rex and float with flying dinos. The striking Brachiosaurus is twelve feet high and definitely 27 meters tall so you can not miss it. Are you a real dino expert? Then help dig up a dinosaur as a true archaeologist. Do not be scared, at the Dino Park you will also be eye-catching with live dinos like impressive giant turtles and the colorful helmet boxer.