Mammal-like Reptiles with Sails: Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus coloring page

 I am re-posting the reptile drawings that I posted earlier in a single post.  Now I will post each drawing alone.  This drawing is set in the oldest age of early reptiles... The Permian.  This was BEFORE the dinosaurs. This is one of the Reptile drawings I posted previously.  

This is my free coloring pages blog... with around 3000 coloring pages that I have drawn.

I am a retired science teacher and a paleontology and biology fanatic...

 so I will tell you about the animals in each drawing.

Edaphosaurus chased by Dimetrodon

These two animals are from the Early Permian Period of the Paleozoic Era.  They are NOT dinosaurs, although toy Dimetrodons are often found in packages of toy dinosaurs.  Dimetrodon was a predator and Edaphosaurus was an herbivorous prey species. Both were some of the earliest mammal-like reptiles.  Dimetrodon means two-length teeth.  It was the first animal with fangs.  They both lived in what is now Europe and North America between 275 mya and 295 mya. MYA = million years ago. This drawing is a rather simple depiction of the two actual animals.  (It is not exactly perfectly accurate, but it is a recognizable drawing of the two animals.)  They lived in the early Permian Period, many million years before the first dinosaur appeared.  So they were NOT dinosaurs.  

The printable version of this drawing is found by clicking on the Paleontology button and then scrolling down to the bottom of the  Paleozoic section of the Paleontology list.  Then click on the title and print the drawing to color