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powerful shearing action,
which would have
enabled dicynodonts to cope with
tough plant material.
Dicynodonts typically had a pair of
enlarged maxillary caniniform...
-
remaining groups—
dicynodonts, therocephalians, and cynodonts—reduced to a
handful of
species each by the
earliest Tri****ic. The
dicynodonts, now represented...
-
Placerias belongs to a
group of
dicynodonts called Kannemeyeriiformes,
which was the last
known group of
dicynodonts before the
taxon became extinct at...
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reduced by the Permian–Tri****ic
extinction event. Only the
therapsid dicynodonts and
eutheriodonts (consisting of
Therocephalia and Cynodontia) are known...
- Like some
other Tri****ic
dicynodonts,
Lisowicia was
completely toothless and
lacked even the
tusks typical of most
dicynodonts. Instead, it had a pair...
-
Permian and Tri****ic periods. By far the most
speciose group are the
dicynodonts, a
clade of beaked,
tusked herbivores.
Anomodonts were very
diverse during...
-
Unlike other therapsids,
dicynodonts had very
short snouts and no
teeth except for the tusk-like
upper canines.
Dicynodonts are
generally thought to have...
-
known dicynodonts to have
coexisted with large-bodied
sauropodomorph dinosaurs.
Prior to its discovery,
large sauropodomorphs and
dicynodonts were thought...
-
already had fur,
setting the
evolution of
hairs possibly as far back as
dicynodonts. When
endothermy first appeared in the
evolution of
mammals is uncertain...
- than
later dicynodonts, with a
slender construction and a rounded—rather than sloping—snout profile.
Nyaphulia is
notable among dicynodonts for lacking...
