Platyhystrix
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| phylum | Chordata | Platyhystrix (meaning "flat porcupine") was a temnospondyl amphibian with a distinctive sail along its back, similar to the unrelated synapsids, Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus. It lived during the latest Carboniferous and earliest Permian periods in Texas, about 300 million years ago. Platyhystrix may have been preyed upon by larger temnospondyls such as Eryops, or by larger carnivorous reptiles, which were becoming more common and diverse in the drier climate of the Permian.
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| class | Amphibia | |
| order | Temnospondyli | |
| family | Dissorophidae | |
| genus | Platyhystrix | |
| Period | 301–298Ma |
