What did Tanyka eat? Reconstructing the diet of an ancient Brazilian tetrapod

See an ‘ancient living fossil’ and hear about the research into their diet being led by Syd Joheim, Prince Intern, and Ken Angielczyk, MacArthur Curator of Paleomammalogy. Tanyka, a Permian stem tetrapod from Brazil, is known only for its jaws that have extensive fields of tiny teeth on their inner surface. These unique features suggest they had a different diet than other early tetrapods who lived over 275 million years ago. Discover how researchers hope to gain insight into what it might have been eating by comparing the complexity of these teeth to those of other contemporary species and examining micro-wear patterns on the teeth to reconstruct their diet.