Dimetrodon

Dimetrodon

Dimetrodon meaning "Two-measures Tooth" is a carnivore meat-eating pelycosaur mammal-like reptile, an ancestor of the mammals, that lives during the Permain Period, long before the dinosaurs evolved.

Background Formation

Feature Film Fantasia

Character Formation

Appearance: A pelycosaur mammal-like reptile

With a sail on it's back.

Occupation: Dimetrodon

Allies    In Fantasia: Parasaurolophus ,

Triceratops, other herbivores

Enemies: In Fantasia: Tyrannosaurus Rex

Dimetrodon's appearance

The Dimetrodon has a large sail-like flap of skin along it's back, dense with blood vessels. The sail was supported by long, bony spines, each of grew out of a seperate spinal vertebra. The sail may have been a thermoregulatory structure, used to absorb and release heat. The sail mayhave also been used for mating and dominance rituals, and/or for making it look much larger than it was to predators. Dimetrodon had sharp teeth snd clawed feet.

In Fantasia

In "The Rite of Spring" a pair Dimetrodons were seen, one was yawning and the other one was eating, one was seen when the Tyrannosaurus Rex arrived in the thunderstorm. One Dimetrodon was running away along with a Parasaurolophus, Triceratops , flying pterosaur, 2 lizards from the Tyrannosaur Rex hunting and chasing them.

One Dimetrodon was seen after the Stegosaurus' death from been killed by the T-Rex along with a group of herbivorous dinosaurs (A Parasaurolophus, Triceratops, Corythosaurus and a Diplodocus) looking and watching. At the end of segment, there were no Dimetrodons weren't seen again at the end of the segment.