- Permian. The
latest gorgonopsians, Rubidgeinae, were the most
robust of the
group and
could produce especially powerful bites.
Gorgonopsians are
thought to...
-
large size
among gorgonopsians,
rivaled only by the
South African genus Rubidgea, the
latter having a
roughly similar size.
Gorgonopsians were skeletally...
- (Guadalupian) but the
anomodont dicynodonts as well as the
theriodont gorgonopsians and
therocephalians flourished,
being joined at the very end of the...
-
gorgonopsid therapsids known only from Africa. They were
among the
largest gorgonopsians, and
their fossils are
common in the
Cistecephalus and Daptocephalus...
-
therapsids which appeared during the
Middle Permian and
which includes the
gorgonopsians and the eutheriodonts,
itself including the
therocephalians and the...
- terrible”.
Rubidgea is part of the
gorgonopsian subfamily Rubidgeinae, a
derived group of large-bodied
gorgonopsians restricted to the Late
Permian (Lopingian)...
- the
extinction of the
large herbivorous pareiasaurs and
carnivorous gorgonopsians left
those ecological niches empty. Some were
filled by the surviving...
- however, most
gorgonopsians probably lacked the
other specializations found in true saber-toothed
predator ecomorphs. Two
gorgonopsians,
Smilesaurus and...
- to be one of the earliest-diverging
gorgonopsians,
after Nochnitsa, also from Kotelnich. All
other gorgonopsians appear to
belong to two, later-diverging...
-
wiped out most of the then-dominant
therapsid competitors such as the
gorgonopsians and anomodonts, and the
subsequent arid Tri****ic
climate allowed the...
