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Eryops
Eryops
Pronounced: EAR-ee-ops
Literally, "drawn-out eye"
Eryops was a meat-eating Labryinthodont Amphibian
that lived during the lower Permian period of the
Paleozoic era, some 275 million years ago.
Although only 7 feet long, he was one of the
largest of the primitive ampbibians.
His modern relatives are the frogs and salamanders.
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