Therapsida

Lycaenops
Lycaenops
late Permian period
illustration © Doug Henderson



Introduction to the Therapsida - diversity and evolutionary relationships
Four Horned Face - the first Therapsid (Tetraceratops)
miscellanous ancestral types - the Biarmosuchia and Phthinosuchia
Giant Dawn Crocodiles - the Eotitanosuchia
"Terrible heads" - the mighty Dinocephalia
Master herbivores - the Anomodonts
On the road to mammals - the adaptable Theriodonts
Therapsid links


Permian Period Triassic period Reptilia Theropsida




Palaeos Palaeos Page (incorporates some of this material, plus a lot of additional material)




Kheper index page
Palaeo index page
Therapsida main page





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page uploaded 10 November 1999. Reposted and last modified 1 September 2005