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Dinocephalians were
among the
largest animals of the
Permian period; only the
biggest caseids and
pareiasaurs reaching them in size.
Dinocephalians were...
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displacing the pelycosaurs.
Therapsida consists of four
major clades: the
dinocephalians, the
herbivorous anomodonts, the
carnivorous biarmosuchians, and the...
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giants titanosuchids and
tapinocephalids dinocephalians and
large pareiasaurs. As in many
other dinocephalians the
cranial bones of
Anteosaurus are pachyostosed...
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Jonkeria is an
extinct genus of
dinocephalians.
Jonkeria was a
large and
omnivorous animal, from the
Tapinocephalus ****emblage Zone,
Lower Beaufort Group...
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called sphenacodonts.
Therapsida consists of four
major clades: the
dinocephalians, the
herbivorous anomodonts, the
carnivorous biarmosuchians, and the...
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Tapinocephalus ("low,
depressed head") is an
extinct genus of
large herbivorous dinocephalians that
lived during the
Middle Permian Period in what is now
South Africa...
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dominated by therapsids, most
abundantly by the
diverse Dinocephalia.
Dinocephalians become extinct at the end of the
Middle Permian,
during the Capitanian...
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Biarmosuchia were the most
primitive and pelycosaur-like of the therapsids.
Dinocephalians ("terrible heads")
included both
carnivores and herbivores. They were...
- Barghusen,
Herbert R. (1975). "A
Review of
Fighting Adaptations in
Dinocephalians (Reptilia, Therapsida)". Paleobiology. 1 (3): 295–311. doi:10.1017/s0094837300002542...
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dominant group of
therapsid amniotes, the
dinocephalians,
which led to its
later designation as the
dinocephalian extinction. Post-extinction origination...
