Metazoa info

[Duke Guilmon]

XProtergyrinus scheelei



Size:2½ meters

Weight:2.2-4.5kg

Life expectancy:Not known

When it First appeared: It appeared in the Serpukhovian 328.3million years ago

Location:The fossils of this animal where found in Scotland and West Virginia

Taxonomy:

Class:Amphibia
Clade:Reptilomorpha
Order:XAnthracosauria
Suborder:XEmbolomeri
Family:XProterogyrinidae
Genus:XProterogyrinus
Species:XProterogyrinus scheelei

Diet:This animal can eat both the animals in water, air, and land.

Anatomy:This animal is a transitional fossil. Its amphibian traits were its labyrinthodon-amphibian skull and teeth, and a fish skull hinge. Also it had a amphibian ankle.
Its amniote traits are its amniote vertabre,pelvis,digits, and humerus and its 2-3-4-5-3 phalangeal count.

Behavior:This animal was transitional in its behavior. This animal moved in water like an amphibian but traveled on land like an amniote.

Reproduction:Not known

Relationships with other animals:Not known besides its prey.



It is a lizard frog demon

Other sources:

http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/tetrapodsa...yrinus.htm

http://www.reptileevolution.com/proterogyrinus.htm

http://www.palaeocritti.com/by-group/emb...erogyrinus

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XGerobatrachus hottoni



Size:11 cm

Weight:Not known

Life expectancy:Not known

When it First appeared: In the early Permian, 290 million years ago

Location:The fossil of this animal was found in Baylor county, Texas

Taxonomy:

Class:Amphibia
Order:XTemnospondyli
Clade:XEuskelia
Superfamily:XDissorophoidea
Family:XAmphibamidae
Genus:XGerobatrachus
Species:XGerobatrachus hottoni

Diet:This animals diet was insects

Anatomy:This animal is a transitional fossil. Its salamander traits are its tail, that its back bone has more in common with salamanders because as it is wider, and it had a flat head like other temnospondyli.
Its anura traits are its large round head and short vertebre, however it shares this trait with the early salamander karaurus, and a otic notch.

Behavior:This animal was aquatic, and would hang around water.

Reproduction:Not known

Relationships with other animals:Not known



A detailed view of our frogamander

Other sources:

http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/tetrapodsa...rachus.htm

http://www.reptileevolution.com/gerobatrachus.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...131541.htm

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XEocacelia micropodia



Life expectancy:Not known

When it First appeared:Early Jurrasic 199.6 million years ago

Location:The fossil of this animal was found in Arizona

Taxonomy:

Class:Amphibia
Clade:Lissamphibia
Order:Gymnophiona
Genus:XEocaecilia
Species:XEocaecilia micropodia

Diet:Larve and insects

Anatomy:This fossil is transitional. Its main transitional feature is its limbs. The limbs were used to move and are left over from its Lissamphibian ancestors.

Behavior:This animal could have traveled underground. Not much is known about E.micropodia's behavior

Reproduction:Not known



Other sources:

http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/tetrapodsa...ecilia.htm

http://www.palaeocritti.com/by-group/lis...eocaecilia

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Ado...ne.0050743

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Gnathostomulida paradoxa



Size:0.5-1mm

Weight:Not known

Life expectancy:Not known

When it first appeared:Not known

Location:This animal is marine and are found in sand and mud of coastal waters.

Taxonomy:

Order:Bursovaginoidea
Family:Gnathostomulidae
Genus:Gnathostomula
Species:Gnathoastomula paradoxa

Diet:This animal eats red fungi and bacteria

Anatomy:This animal has no body cavity, and no circulatory or respiratory system. This animal has a simple nervous system. G.paradoxa is known for its jaws. These jaws are located behind its head. These jaws have minute teeth and a plate with comb-like structure to collect food with.

Behavior: This animal moves in the sand and collects food.

Reproduction: These animals are hermaphrodites. The eggs of these animals rupture through the body wall. When the eggs hatch, they come out as miniature adults.

Relationship with other animals: Not known



The jaws of a monster

Other sources:

http://www.zmuc.dk/inverweb/dyr/limnogna...ida_UK.htm

http://eol.org/pages/8747/overview

http://www.realmonstrosities.com/2014/04/jaw-worm.html