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

a ceratopsid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period

providing protection against predators and other dangers

pointed jaw full of sharp teeth

which were shorter than the hind legs

Lalieudorhynchus gandi Tethyshadros reaching lengths of up toLalieudorhynchus 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