In Depth Sauroscaptor is a genus of burrowing dicynodont that lived in India during the late Permian. Further Reading - A new Taxon of Cistecephalid Dicynodont from the Upper Permian Kundaram Formation of India. - Papers in Palaeontology 1-16. - C. F. Kammerer, S. Bandyopadhyay & S. Ray - 2016.
In Depth When fossils where first reported in 2008, it was clear that that these were the bones of what would become one of the more noteworthy dicynodonts. Formally named over ten years later, Lisowicia is by far one of the largest, if not the largest dicynodonts that ever lived. A second feature of note … Read more
In Depth Known from a partial skull initially thought to belong to the Procynosuchus genus, Abdalodon was defined as a distinct genus in 2016. Abdalodon was named in honour of palaeontologist Fernando Abdala, in recognition of their work on cynodonts. Further Reading - A new taxon of cynodont from the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone (Upper Permian) … Read more
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
In Depth Acratophorus is a genus of dicynodont therapsid that lived in South America during the Triassic. Further reading - Sobre nuevos terapsidos Triasicos hallados en el centro de la Provincia de Mendoza, Argentina. - Acta Geologica Lilloana (8): 91–100. - J. F. Bonaparte - 1966. - Una nueva “fauna” Triasica de Argentina (Therapsida: Cynodontia … Read more
In Depth Arctops was a South African gorgonopsid of the late Permian, but there is now a question over the validity of the genus. It has been considered that Arctops may be the adult form of Scylacognathus, another gorgonopsid that was named a year earlier than Arctops. Further Reading – Notes on some carnivorous reptiles. … Read more