Species Classification: ‭ ‬Gorgonopsia.

Nochnitsa

In Depth        With a skull a little over eight centimetres long Nochnitsa is one of the smallest known grogonopsian therapsids known.‭ ‬Whereas the larger gorgonopsids were apex predators,‭ ‬Nochnitsa may have lived more like a modern day fox,‭ ‬hunting smaller creatures while evading the more dangerous ones. Further Reading -‭ ‬Gorgonopsian therapsids‭ (‬Nochnitsa gen.‭ ‬nov.‭ … Read more

Aloposaurus

In Depth        A fairly small gorgonopsid therapsid,‭ ‬Aloposaurus was represented by only a weather eroded skull until the addition of a second species in‭ ‬1953.‭ ‬This came about from a study that found another genus called Aloposauroides was actually the same as Aloposaurus. Further Reading -‭ ‬Observations on some specimens of South African Fossil Reptiles … Read more

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