stiff tail that helped it maintain its balance while walking

as well as various types of aquatic reptiles and fish

reaching lengths of up to 9 meters and weighing around 4 to 5 tons

which were shorter than the hind legs

Lalieudorhynchus gandi Tethyshadros stiff tail that helped itLalieudorhynchus gandi, an extinct group of reptiles that possessed mammalian features and were thought to be ancestors of mammals. It was about 3. 5 meters tall and lived during the Permian period (in what is now southern France) a period that began about 299 million years ago and ended about 252 million years ago with the start of the Triassic. Lalieudorhynchus is represented by a partial postcranial skeleton discovered in the Lodve basin in the