In Depth Ictidosuchoides is a genus of therocephalian therapsid that is known to have lived at the time of the great Permian extinction. Ictidosuchoides is known to have survived this event, however the genus seems to have disappeared not long after, suggesting that while Ictidosuchoides survived the main extinction, the event still took its toll … Read more
In Depth Microgomphodon is one of the more common genera of therocephalian therapsids, and is also one of the last known to have survived. Further Reading - New Material of Microgomphodon oligocynus (Eutherapsida, Therocephalia) and the Taxonomy of Southern African Bauriidae”. Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida. - Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. - F. Abdala, … Read more
In Depth Scylacosaurus is a genus of therapsid that lived in South Africa. Further Reading - On the structure of the palate in the primitive theriodonts. - Geological Magazine 10 (8): 343–345. - Robert Broom - 1903.
In Depth Scylacorhinus is a genus of scylacosaurid therapsid that lived in South Africa during the Permian. Further Reading - Catalogue of types and figured specimens of fossil vertebrates in the American Museum of Natural History. II.–Permian, Triassic and Jurassic reptiles of South Africa. - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 25(2):105-164. - … Read more