(Click for a call) Thumbnail: An old male Scutosaurus peacefully grazes on a bush as he prepares to travel. Scutosaurus ("shield lizard") is an extinct genus of pareiasaur parareptiles. Its genus name refers to large plates of armor scattered across its body. It was a large anapsid reptile that, unlike most reptiles, held its legs underneath its body to support its great weight. Fossils have been found in the Sokolki Assemblage Zone of the Malokinelskaya Formation in European Russia, close to the Ural Mountains, dating to the late Permian (Lopingian) between 264 and 252 million years ago.
By far my favourite Permian animal. If this is used, give me credit. Music: Jurassic Park
