Evidências de Anomalias Ósseas em Stahleckeria potens Huene, 1935 (Therapsida, Anomodontia). [PDF]
Anuário do Instituto de Geociências, 2007 Os dicinodontes representam um grupo de tetrápodes herbívoros amplamente registrado em rochas sedimentares do Permiano Superior eTriássico. Uma das espécies mais instigantes é Stahleckeria potens Huene 1935, uma forma de porte avantajado cujos fósseis ...
Cibele Schwanke, Diogo Jorge de Melo
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Masticatory jaw movement of Exaeretodon argentinus (Therapsida: Cynodontia) inferred from its dental microwear. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Dental microwear of four postcanine teeth of Exaeretodon argentinus was analyzed using both two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) methods to infer their masticatory jaw movements.
Tai Kubo, Eisuke Yamada, Mugino O Kubo
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Synchrotron scanning reveals the palaeoneurology of the head-butting Moschops capensis (Therapsida, Dinocephalia) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Dinocephalian therapsids are renowned for their massive, pachyostotic and ornamented skulls adapted for head-to-head fighting during intraspecific combat.
Julien Benoit +4 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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Growth increments in teeth of Diictodon (Therapsida)
Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 1991 Growth increments circa 0.02 mm in width have been observed in sectioned tusks of Diictodon from the Late Permian lower Beaufort succession of the South African Karoo, dated between about 260 and 245 million years ago.
J. Francis Thackeray
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Reappraisal of the envenoming capacity of Euchambersia mirabilis (Therapsida, Therocephalia) using μCT-scanning techniques. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Euchambersia mirabilis is an iconic species of Permo-Triassic therapsid because of its unusually large external maxillary fossa linked through a sulcus to a ridged canine.
Julien Benoit +3 more
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Cranial Bosses of Choerosaurus dejageri (Therapsida, Therocephalia): Earliest Evidence of Cranial Display Structures in Eutheriodonts. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Choerosaurus dejageri, a non-mammalian eutheriodont therapsid from the South African late Permian (~259 Ma), has conspicuous hemispheric cranial bosses on the maxilla and the mandible.
Julien Benoit +3 more
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Rise of dinosaurs reveals major body-size transitions are driven by passive processes of trait evolution. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2012 A major macroevolutionary question concerns how long-term patterns of body-size evolution are underpinned by smaller scale processes along lineages.
Sookias RB, Butler RJ, Benson RB.
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Bringing dicynodonts back to life: paleobiology and anatomy of a new emydopoid genus from the Upper Permian of Mozambique. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Dicynodontia represent the most diverse tetrapod group during the Late Permian. They survived the Permo-Triassic extinction and are central to understanding Permo-Triassic terrestrial ecosystems.
Rui Castanhinha +8 more
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Revision of the Tanzanian dicynodont Dicynodon huenei (Therapsida: Anomodontia) from the Permian Usili Formation [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 A single species of the dicynodontoid dicynodont Dicynodon is currently recognized from the late Permian Usili Formation of Tanzania: Dicynodon huenei Haughton, 1932. Restudy of the known Tanzanian materials of D.
Christian F. Kammerer
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