Habitat

Diictodon lived in the central Pangaean desert, alongside gorgonopsians such as Inostrancevia, pareiasaurs such as Scutosaurus, and amphibians during the wet season. Vegetation was scarce during the grueling dry season. They lived in twisting burrows, which could reach over a meter underground! Their burrows were clustered together, with a pair of diictodons per hole, but they weren't working with others. Each pair worked together to obtain food, but they competed with others. They likely lived in burrows to avoid the desert heat, which could be up to 73 degrees celsius (163 degrees fahrenheit)! Diictodon was very well adapted to its habitat, and its descendants eventually dominated the planet, with over half of land vertebrates being Lystrosaurus.