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53 N. Macdonald
Mesa, AZ 85201
(One block north of Main Street in downtown Mesa.
Take US 60 or 202 to Country Club Drive, go to Main
Street, and proceed one-half mile east to
Macdonald) -
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Walk Through Time (cont'd)
Paleozoic Seas
Symmorium, an ancestor of sharks, lived in the
Pennsylvanian Period, 311-290 million years ago,
when warm, shallow seas covered much of present day
Arizona.

Mammal-Like Reptiles
Inostrancevia belongs to the group of
mammal-like reptiles known as therapsids. This
individual lived during the Permian Period, about
245 million years ago, in what is now Russia. Note
how the teeth are of different shapes and sizes—a
trait he shares with mammals.

Estemmenosuchus was a mammal-like reptile
with horns that remind one of a moose. He was about
the size of a modern rhinoceros and lived in the
Late Permian Period of Russia, 245 million years
ago.

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