- (a
region referred to by
Russian paleontologists as the Cis-Urals).
Estemmenosuchids are
among the most
distinctive of the
Permian tetrapods. The high and...
- short-lived but most
dominant dinocephalians. Even the
earliest members, the
estemmenosuchids and
early brithopodids of the
Russian Ocher fauna, were
already a diverse...
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Parabradysaurus is an
extinct genus of
estemmenosuchid dinocephalians. It is
known from a few
serrated teeth that
indicate this
animal was like herbivorous...
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Estemmenosuchus are from the Perm (or Cis-Urals)
region of Russia. Two
other estemmenosuchids,
Anoplosuchus and Zopherosuchus, are now
considered females of the...
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Molybdopygus is an
extinct genus of
estemmenosuchid dinocephalians from the
Middle Permian of Russia. It is
known from a
single pelvis.
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Brithopus is a
nomen dubium composed both of
remains of
indeterminate estemmenosuchid-like
tapinocephalian and
indeterminate anteosaurian, so invalidating...
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dubium by some researchers.
Brithopus was
later considered a
possible estemmenosuchid, a type of
herbivorous tapinocephalian therapsid.
Dinosaurus and Eurosaurus...
- Titanosuchus.
Unlike anteosaurs and
estemmenosuchids,
tapinocephalians are
primarily an
African group. The
estemmenosuchids and
pareiasaurs may have occupied...
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although it has also been
suggested (Kemp, 1982, King 1988) that the
estemmenosuchids are more basal. They have
featured in
common with
pelycosaurs (Carroll...
- in
flood deposits (once
coastal bogs)
containing many
skeletons of
estemmenosuchids, it has been
suggested that this
large predator was an
excellent swimmer...