-
horns and bosses.
Biarmosuchians were the last of the six
major therapsid lineages to be recognized. The
majority of
biarmosuchians were once considered...
- clades: the dinocephalians, the
herbivorous anomodonts, the
carnivorous biarmosuchians, and the
mostly carnivorous theriodonts.
After a
brief burst of evolutionary...
-
Burnetiamorpha is a
clade of
biarmosuchian therapsids.
Burnetiamorphs are the most
derived biarmosuchians. The name
Burnetiamorpha has been in use since...
- China, Brazil,
South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania.
Apart from the
biarmosuchians, the
dinocephalians are the
least advanced therapsids,
although still...
- Ictidorhinidae,
named by
South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1932. Many
biarmosuchians have been
identified as
ictidorhinids since the
family was
first named...
- The
Usili Formation is a Late
Permian geologic formation in Tanzania. It
preserves fossils of many
terrestrial vertebrates from the Permian, including...
- a
trait shared with
other biarmosuchians. It is
inferred that the
premaxilla was short,
similar to its
fellow biarmosuchian, Lycaenodon. Four premaxillary...
-
efficient than the
biarmosuchian bite. For this reason, some
paleontologists see the
eotitanosuchids as
transitional between the
biarmosuchians and
higher therapsids...
- weak bite. The
temple was, however,
larger at the top than in
other biarmosuchians.
Eotitanosuchus fossils were
found in the Perm (or Cis-Urals) region...
-
modified from
Angielczyk and
Kammerer (2017):
Theriodont Dinocephalia Biarmosuchians Evolution of
mammals Liu, J.; Rubidge, B.; Li, J. (2009). "A new specimen...
