Comparing cranial biomechanics between Barbourofelis fricki and Smilodon fatalis: Is there a universal killing-bite among saber-toothed predators? [PDF]
Anat Rec (Hoboken)Saber‐tooths, extinct apex predators with long and blade‐like upper canines, have appeared iteratively at least five times in the evolutionary history of vertebrates.
Figueirido B +2 more
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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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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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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 transformations throughout the past 270Ma, eventually leading to the evolution of the mammalian ...
Araujo, Ricardo M +4 more
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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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Adaptive landscapes unveil the complex evolutionary path from sprawling to upright forelimb function and posture in mammals. [PDF]
PLoS BiolThe ‘sprawling-parasagittal’ postural transition is a key part of mammalian evolution, associated with sweeping reorganization of the postcranial skeleton in mammals compared to their forebears, the non-mammalian synapsids.
Brocklehurst RJ +3 more
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Bone microstructure and the evolution of growth patterns in Permo-Triassic therocephalians (Amniota, Therapsida) of South Africa. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Therocephalians were a speciose clade of nonmammalian therapsids whose ecological diversity and survivorship of the end-Permian mass extinction offer the potential to investigate the evolution of growth patterns across the clade and their underlying ...
Huttenlocker AK, Botha-Brink J.
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Breeding Young as a Survival Strategy during Earth's Greatest Mass Extinction. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2016 Studies of the effects of mass extinctions on ancient ecosystems have focused on changes in taxic diversity, morphological disparity, abundance, behaviour and resource availability as key determinants of group survival.
Botha-Brink J +4 more
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Swiss Journal of PalaeontologyThe diversity of the fauna of the late Permian K6 Formation of the Metangula graben of northern Mozambique is coming to light thanks to recent discoveries made by the PaleoMoz Project.
Zanildo Macungo +2 more
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