title: Platyoposaurus
text: # Platyoposaurus
  
  Platyoposaurus was a temnospondyl from the Middle Permian epoch about 270-268 Mya.
  
  ## Discovery
  
  One of the discoveries includes a skull 28 cm long with a purported body length of 250 cm representing a carnivorous adult specimen.
  
  The fossil remains were found in Belebey in Bashkortostan, Russia; the name Platyoposaurus means "flat-faced lizard" and was coined after the original name Platyops turned out to be preoccupied.
  
  