providing protection against predators and other dangers

stiff tail that helped it maintain its balance while walking

pointed jaw full of sharp teeth

Tsintaosaurus had a relatively large brain relative to its body size

Lalieudorhynchus gandi Tethyshadros providing protection against predators andLalieudorhynchus 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