Edaphosaurus, skull, sculpture Quetzalcoatlus McCown near Mount Carmel

McCown near Mount Carmel

bipedal carnivore

The forelimb preserves parts of the wing skeleton on the main slab

This specimen is a sculpture based on the original specimen of Darwinius masillae

Endocasts were used for looking at the brains of homo sapiens to find hemispheric specialization

Edaphosaurus, skull, sculpture Quetzalcoatlus McCown near Mount CarmelEdaphosaurus, (meaning "pavement lizard" for dense clusters of teeth) is a genus of extinct edaphosaurid synapsid that lived in what is now North America and Europe around 300 to 280 million years ago, during the late Carboniferous to early Permian periods. The American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope first described Edaphosaurus in 1882, naming it for the "dental pavement" on both the upper and lower jaws, from the Greek edaphos ("ground"; also