Fossils Show Colonies of Reptiles Lived Communally 250 Million Years Ago

Cave art depicts an animal that went extinct 280-million-years ago

If the cave art painting really captures a dicynodont, it predates formal paleontology. They've been extinct for about 250 million years.

Secrets of underground reptile colonies revealed after 250 million years

The findings confirm that communal living among land-living reptiles happened further back in time than we thought

South Africa: Fossils Show Colonies of Reptiles Lived Communally 250 Million Years Ago - New South African Study

Analysis - A fossilised colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It's the first time that the Procolophon trigoniceps, which lived in the lowlands of what was then the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana (today the central Karoo), has been found to have lived and died communally in complex, underground burrows. Up till now, they have only been found as single specimens.

Fossils show colonies of reptiles lived communally 250 million years ago

A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It's the first time that the Procolophon trigoniceps, which lived in the lowlands of what was then the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana (today the central Karoo), has been found to have lived and died communally in complex, underground burrows. Up till now, they have only been found as single specimens.

Fossils show colonies of reptiles lived communally 250 million years ago: new South African study

A fossilised colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It’s the first time that the Procolophon trigoniceps, which lived in the lowlands of what was then the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana (today the central Karoo), has been found to have lived and died communally in complex, underground burrows. Up till now, they have only been found as single specimens. With a short neck, l…

Procolophon trigoniceps, A Burrowing Reptile That Lived 250 Million Years Ago Discovered In South Africa - Reptiles Magazine

Researchers have discovered what they describe as a burrowing reptile species that lived 250 million years ago, communally in “complex, underground burrows.” The lizards, Procolophon trigoniceps, were discovered in what is now central Karoo, South Africa. Researcher Roger Malcolm Harris Smith, University of the Witwatersrand notes in a paper in The Conversation that the reptile lived and died in the underground burrows. The lizard had a short ne…