These features of the jaw and teeth may indicate feeding or food processing in quite a different way to other procolophonids, perhaps a range of foods including plants and insects 🌱🐛🌲 🐜 4/4
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Many of the lower jaw bones have a weird toothless tip and featureless symphysis. Perhaps the halves of the jaw were connected flexibly to help jaw movements and aid close tooth-on-tooth contact during chewing or providing shock-absorption💀 3/4

This is based on tiny partial remains from Carnian-Norian age fissure fills from Cromhall Quarry, SW England. The upper jaw has a highly reduced tooth count of large 3-cusped teeth, distinct and more complex than many other procolophonids🦷 2/4