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Therapsida

Lycaenops
Lycaenops
link to palaeos com 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


link to palaeos com Permian Period link to palaeos com Triassic period Wikipedia link Reptilia link to palaeos com Theropsida





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