In Depth Pachydectes was a primitive biarmosuchian therapsid that lived in South Africa during the mid-Permian. Further Reading - A new burnetiamorph (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) from the Middle Permian of South Africa. - Journal of Paleontology 80 (4): 740–749. - B. S. Rubidge, C. A. Sidor & S. P. Modesto - 2006.
In Depth Simorhinella is a genus of therocephalian therapsid that lived in South Africa during the Permian. Simorhinella is noteworthy for having a snout that by proportion to relative genera is considerably shorter and deeper. This may have allowed Simorhinella to have a very strong bite force as the deeper snout would have been able … Read more
In Depth Named from a thirteen centimetre long skull, Eoarctops seems to have been a particularly small genus of gorgonopsid. The skull is noted for being particularly broad at the back with a short snout, suggesting morphological adaptations for a proportionately high bite for tis size. This is because there would be room for larger … Read more
In Depth Eosimops is a genus of dicynodont therapsid that lived in South Africa during the Permian. Further Reading - Skeletal morphology, phylogenetic relationships and stratigraphic range of Eosimops newtoni Broom, 1921, a pylaecephalid dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Middle Permian of South Africa. - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology Volume 11, Issue 2 - Kenneth … Read more
In Depth Microurania is a genus of biarmosuchian therapsid that lived in Russia during the Permian. As a biarmosuchian, Microurania is expected to have been a predator, and given the small size of the holotype skull, possibly of smaller vertebrates. Further Reading - New primitive therapsids from the Permian of Eastern Europe. - Paleontol. Zh … Read more
In Depth Trochosaurus is a genus of trochosuchian therocephalian therapsid that lived in South Africa during the Permian. Further Reading Further reading- A revision of the reptiles of the Karroo. – Annals of the South African Museum 7(6):361-366. – R. Broom – 1913.
In Depth Eurychororhinus is a little known genus of dicynodont that lived in South Africa during the Permian. Further Reading – �ber einige primitive Anomodontier-Sch�del aus den unteren Beaufort-Schichten. Ibidem Sitzber. Bayer. Ak. Wiss., Math.-Naturw. Abt 223-278. – F. Broili & J. Schroeder – 1935.
In Depth Oromycter is a genus of caseid pelycosaur that lived in Oklahoma during the Permian. As a caseid, Oromycter would have been related to genera such as Casea and Cotylorhynchus. Further Reading - Oromycter, a New Caseid from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(4):905-910. - R. R. Reisz - … Read more
In Depth Proburnetia is a genus of biarmosuchian therapsid that lived in Russia during the Permian. Further Reading - On the cranial morphology of the basal therapsids Burnetia and Proburnetia (Therapsida: Burnetiidae). - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22 (2): 257–267. - B. S. Rubidge & C. A. Sidor - 2002.
In Depth Polonodon is a genus of cynodont that lived in Poland during the Late Triassic. Further Reading - A new early Late Triassic non-mammaliaform eucynodont from Poland. - Historical Biology - Tomasz Sulej, Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki, Mateusz Tałanda, Dawid Dr�żdż & Ewa Hara - 2018.