Cranial anatomy of the gorgonopsian Cynariops robustus based on CT-reconstruction [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Gorgonopsia is one of the major clades of non-mammalian synapsids, and includes an array of large-bodied carnivores that were the top terrestrial predators of the late Permian. Most research on the clade has focused on these largest members; small-bodied
Christian F. Kammerer +2 more
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The postcranial anatomy of Gorgonops torvus (Synapsida, Gorgonopsia) from the late Permian of South Africa [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Gorgonopsians are among the most recognizable groups of synapsids from the Permian period and have an extensive but mostly cranial fossil record. By contrast, relatively little is known about their postcranial anatomy. Here, we describe a nearly complete,
Eva-Maria Bendel +3 more
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Gorgonopsian therapsids (Nochnitsa gen. nov. and Viatkogorgon) from the Permian Kotelnich locality of Russia [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 The early evolution of gorgonopsians is poorly understood. New material from the Kotelnich locality in Russia expands our knowledge of middle/earliest late Permian gorgonopsians from Laurasia.
Christian F. Kammerer, Vladimir Masyutin
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Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 The subfamily Rubidgeinae, containing the largest known African gorgonopsians, is thoroughly revised. Rubidgeinae is diagnosed by the absence of a blade-like parasphenoid rostrum and reduction or absence of the preparietal.
Christian F. Kammerer
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The First Healed Bite Mark and Embedded Tooth in the Snout of a Middle Permian Gorgonopsian (Synapsida: Therapsida) [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Despite their significance for paleobiological interpretations, bite marks have been rarely reported in non-mammalian therapsids (NMT). Here we describe, for the first time, the occurrence of a tooth embedded in the snout of a gorgonopsian.
Julien Benoit +2 more
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Aspects of gorgonopsian paleobiology and evolution: insights from the basicranium, occiput, osseous labyrinth, vasculature, and neuroanatomy [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Synapsida, the clade including therapsids and thus also mammals, is one of the two major branches of amniotes. Organismal design, with modularity as a concept, offers insights into the evolution of therapsids, a group that experienced profound anatomical
Ricardo Araújo +4 more
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The postcranial anatomy of Moschorhinus kitchingi (Therapsida: Therocephalia) from the Karoo Basin of South Africa [PDF]
PeerJTherocephalia are an important clade of non-mammalian therapsids that evolved a diverse array of morphotypes and body sizes throughout their evolutionary history.
Brandon P. Stuart +2 more
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Vertebrate Anatomy, Morphology, PalaeontologyLycaenops contains one of the most anatomically complete gorgonopsian specimens (AMNH FARB 2240) known and is thought to represent one of the more taxonomically diverse forms, with several species historically attributed to it.
Naiomi Cookson, Arjan Mann
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Evidence of a therapsid scavenger in the Late Permian Karoo Basin, South Africa [PDF]
Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 2012 Dicynodonts are an extinct group of herbivorous non-mammalian therapsids (‘mammal-like’ reptiles) that are widely known from terrestrial Permo-Triassic strata throughout Pangaea.
Nicholas Fordyce +2 more
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Investigation of a bone lesion in a gorgonopsian (Synapsida) from the Permian of Zambia and periosteal reactions in fossil non-mammalian tetrapods [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020 Adam K. Huttenlocker, Christian Sidor
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