Permian Era Body Armor

Permian Era Body Armor

Age - 299 / 270 Million Years Old

Permian Era

Species - Edops

Specimen - Ossicles ( Body Armor Plates )

Discovered - Archer County Texas, Archer City Formation

- Edops 

Edops is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Early Permian Period. Unlike more advanced temnospondyls of the time, such as Eryops, Edops exhibited an archaic pattern of palatal bones, and still possessed various additional bones at the back of the skull. Edopoids also had particularly big premaxillae and proportionally small external nostrils. Within the clade, the most basal member seems to be Edops from the Early Permian Archer City Formation of the US, a broad-skulled animal with large palatal teeth.