- it had been
proposed that
therocephalians themselves may have
given rise to the cynodonts, and
therefore that
therocephalians as
recognised are paraphyletic...
-
improved jaw muscles. Both
therocephalians and
cynodonts survived the Permian–Tri****ic
extinction event.
While early therocephalians were
carnivorous and occupied...
-
which are endothermic. Near the end of the Permian, dicynodonts,
therocephalians and
cynodonts show
parallel trends towards loss of the
pineal foramen...
- was a
large therocephalian but
still relatively mid-size
compared to some
other early therocephalians. Like
other early therocephalians, it resembles...
-
therapsids which appear during the
Middle Permian and
which includes therocephalians and cynodonts, this
latter group including mammals and
related forms...
-
Baurioidea is a
superfamily of
therocephalian therapsids. It
includes advanced therocephalians such as
Regisaurus and Bauria. The
superfamily was named...
- food,
although they are not as well
developed as the
teeth of
other therocephalians like Ericiolacerta. In 1999,
thoracic plates were
reported to be present...
- of Purlovia, P. maxima, was
named in 2011. In
comparison to
other therocephalians,
Purlovia had a very wide
skull due to a
widened temporal region. Viewed...
-
South Africa,
Russia and China. The
family includes many large-bodied
therocephalians that were
probably carnivorous,
including Moschorhinus and Olivierosuchus...
-
Bauriidae is an
extinct family of
therocephalian therapsids.
Bauriids were the latest-surviving
group of
therocephalians after the Permian–Tri****ic extinction...
