Overview
Name meaning: Wicker Basket Chest
Time Period: Norian Triassic
Locations: Germany,Greenland,Sweden
Taxonomy:Temnospondyli-Plagiosauroidea-Plagiosauridae
Subspecies: G. Pulcherrimus G.rhaeticus
Characteristics
Gerrothorax was a temnospondyl (amphibian) from the Norian of the Triassic. Its body looks like a steamroller flattened it but that's just a morphological quirk. Its lower jaw isn't flexible so when it opens its mouth its upper jaw tilts upwards around 50 degrees up like a toilet seat. "It's weird. It's the ugliest animal in the world," Harvard University's Farish Jenkins. Despite this G. Pulcherrimus means rather Beautiful
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