- or more), to
become the top
predators of
terrestrial environments.
Sphenacodontid fossils are so far
known only from
North America and Europe. The skull...
- Teardrop-shaped
teeth are
unique to
Dimetrodon and
other closely related sphenacodontids,
which helps to
distinguish them from
other early synapsids. As in...
- small, 1-10 kg,
faunivore animals. The
possible common ancestor of
sphenacodontids and
therapsids was a
carnivorous synapsid that
reached moderate or...
- (hidden, secret); venator, from
Latin (hunter)) is an
extinct genus of
sphenacodontid "pelycosaurs"
which existed in
Germany during the
latest Carboniferous...
-
canine teeth. The
appearance of
Titanophoneus is
reminiscent to the
sphenacodontid pelycosaurs,
which included Dimetrodon.
Reconstruction of a T. potens...
-
Johannes Müller;
Thomas Schindler;
Dieter Schweiss (2011). "A new
basal sphenacodontid synapsid from the Late
Carboniferous of the Saar-Nahe Basin, Germany"...
-
consisting of
elongated vertebral spines: the
edaphosaurids and the
sphenacodontids. In life, this may have been
covered by skin, and
likely functioned...
- was
actually a
composite that
included bones of "amphibians" and a
sphenacodontid. Cope
described the
teeth as
having "apices are not very acute. The...
-
genus Dimetrodon survived until about 270
million years ago. Such
large sphenacodontid predators were
later replaced by therapsids, the
group of synapsids...
-
Cutleria is an
extinct genus of
basal sphenacodontids or
derived stem-sphenacodontoid
known from the
Early Permian period (Sakmarian stage) of Colorado...
