Animals That Lived Before Dinosaurs

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The dimetrodon was a large reptile-like animal that lived during the early Permian period, about 40 million years before the dinosaurs 

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The meganeura was a giant insect that resembled a dragonfly. It lived during the late Carboniferous period, about 300 million years ago 

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The estemmenosuchus was a bizarre-looking animal that lived during the middle Permian period, about 267 million years ago

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The inostrancevia was a huge carnivorous animal that lived during the late Permian period, about 250 million years ago

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The cotylorhynchus, one of the largest land animals of its time, lived about 290 million years ago

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The scutosaurus was a heavily armored animal that lived about 250 million years ago

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The helicoprion was a mysterious shark-like fish that lived about 270 to 225 million years ago

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Coelacanth, the 'extinct' fish that was rediscovered in the 1930s 

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Tanystropheus was initially described as a dinosaur, but it was a protorosaur and lived just before the first dinosaurs

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