- Permian. The
latest gorgonopsians, Rubidgeinae, were the most
robust of the
group and
could produce especially powerful bites.
Gorgonopsians are
thought to...
-
other gorgonopsians,
Inostrancevia had a
particularly large jaw
opening angle,
which would have
allowed it to
inflict fatal bites.
Gorgonopsians in general...
- (Guadalupian) but the
anomodont dicynodonts as well as the
theriodont gorgonopsians and
therocephalians flourished,
being joined at the very end of the...
- to be one of the earliest-diverging
gorgonopsians,
after Nochnitsa, also from Kotelnich. All
other gorgonopsians appear to
belong to two, later-diverging...
-
gorgonopsid therapsids known only from Africa. They were
among the
largest gorgonopsians, and
their fossils are
common in the
Cistecephalus and Daptocephalus...
- terrible”.
Rubidgea is part of the
gorgonopsian subfamily Rubidgeinae, a
derived group of large-bodied
gorgonopsians restricted to the Late
Permian (Lopingian)...
-
therapsids which appeared during the
Middle Permian and
which includes the
gorgonopsians and the eutheriodonts,
itself including the
therocephalians and the...
-
large for an
early gorgonopsian with a
total skull length estimated at ~30 cm (12 in),
comparable to in size to
later gorgonopsians and
notably larger...
- however, most
gorgonopsians probably lacked the
other specializations found in true saber-toothed
predator ecomorphs. Two
gorgonopsians,
Smilesaurus and...
- the
extinction of the
large herbivorous pareiasaurs and
carnivorous gorgonopsians left
those ecological niches empty. Some were
filled by the surviving...
