Meet Tyrannoroter heberti: This 307-million-year-old creature may have been Earth’s first plant-eating vertebrate |
Tyrannoroter heberti is a 307-million-year-old land vertebrate that may have been one of the earliest animals to consume plants. Most land vertebrates of that time were predators, feeding on insects or smaller animals. Fossil evidence indicates that T. heberti had features suggesting it also ate plant matter.The fossilised skull of T. heberti was discovered in…