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Dinosaur Train Geocache: Dimetrodon Traditional Cache

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OReviewer: From the Northern Region Office, New Jersey State Parks Department:


Over a year ago New Jersey enacted a policy that all geocachers must obtain a permit to have their cache on State Park property. We have informed all geocaching host that this is their responsibility and have given them ample time to go about getting their permits. At this time, over a year later, there are still several caches that haven’t complied.

We ask that as the land managers for the attached properties we would like to have these illegal caches removed.


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Hidden : 2/8/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Dinosaur Train Geocache: Dimetrodon


Dimetrodon was a member of a group of animals we call synapsids. Just behind the eye socket in this skull is an opening, called the synapsid opening. Its purpose is not known for certain, but it may have been a passage for jaw muscles that helped Dimetrodon and other synapsids chew.

One other group of animals has this synapsid opening -- mammals. So this 280-million-year-old Dimetrodon fossil is actually one of your early relatives, and another step on the path to your own evolutionary branching point.

The Dimetrodon resembled much of what people would misclassify as a “dinosaur”, however it lived during the Permian period (about 260 million years ago) which is before most dinosaurs. It was about nine feet long, and had legs that were on the side of its body. Like most lizards in order to walk its body moved from side to side. This is a characteristic of animals with legs on its side rather than under it. The Dimetrodon also had a very large “sail” on its back, which is a defining characteristic of this animal.

"Go outside, get into nature and make your own discoveries!" That is what Dr. Scott challenges his viewers to do at the end of each Dinosaur Train episode.

What is your favorite dinosaur? Be sure to tell us when signing the logbook!

For more information on this educational outreach initiative please visit the Dinosaur Train Geocaching.com Page

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