About Atopodentatus unicus:
- Crocodile sized “hammerhead” creature found in south china.
- It has
flamingo-like beak which it used to feed on plants on the ocean floor.
- It is considered that it may have been the earliest
example of plant eating marine reptile.
- Its name is Atopodentatus unicus-
meaning “unique strangely toothed” in Letin.
- It is very strange animal because it
had this name because of it’s hammerhead.
- It had peg like teeth.
- Atopodentatus unicus used its
bizzare jaws to eat plants according to researchers. It was the first herbivorous
marine reptile.
- It has similarities like other
marine animals that ate plants with a filter feeding system but the Atopodentatus
unicus is older than them by 8 million years
- Discovery
of Atopodentatus unicus shows us that how life recovered and diversified more
than previously thought 
