Product Description
Our Henodus reproduction is 3 /8 inches long, 1 3/4 inches wide and is made of solid, durable plastic. This cool looking replica is useful in displays about extinct animals, or dioramas about ancient life or in reports about early turtles or reptiles. See our selection of other extinct reptiles.
Henodus chelyops ("Turtle-Faced Single Tooth") was a placodont of the Late Triassic period during the early Carnian age. Fossils of Henodus chelyops were found in Tübingen, Germany. It was around 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length. Like turtles, it had a shell formed from a plastron on the underside and a carapace on top. The weak limbs of Henodus suggest it spent little, if any time on land. It has been suggested that this placodont was an aquatic herbivore, scraping off vegetation from the bottom with its broad jaws.
