This is Rhinesuchus, a local to our South African shores. He's a big boi with a large flat head. He looks a bit like a frog and crocodile got together... a Frogodile if you will. But he was a temnospondyl which is a big tetrapod - considered a primitive amphibian.

#fossilfriday #dinosaur #gamedev

#temnovember2023 day 11: Rhinesuchus #Temnospondyl were an incredibly diverse and long lived group, however, they weren't always at the top of the food chain,as shown by this #Rhinesuchus becoming food for a #Inostrancevia in what one day will become Africa #temnovember #permian

The Rhinesuchus in cocoon in WWM also looked tasty

The Walking with cast shares more with South Africa with Gorgonops Diictodon and Rhinesuchus being African more specifically the middle to late Permian Endothiodon Assemblage zone.

🎨 "Karoo Life in the late Middle Permian", by Maggie Lambert-Newman

📄 Bordy & Groenewald (2026): "The Karoo Supergroup: Modern insights from the ancient archive of Gondwana"
doi.org/10.25131/saj...