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The holotype of the type species, Gorgonops torvus, was one of the first therapsids discovered. It was described by Richard Owen, who also coined the name "Dinosauria" on the basis of the first known dinosaur fossils. [1] G. torvus was also used as the type for the family Gorgonopsidae, which was described by Richard Lydekker in 1890. [2]
Reconstruction of Gorgonops. In 1876, the first gorgonopsian remains were identified in the Beaufort Group of the Karoo Supergroup of South Africa, by the biologist and paleontologist Richard Owen. He classified the fossils as Gorgonops torvus, combining the Greek Gorgon, a mythological beast, with the word óps , meaning 'aspect'. [14]
Size compared to a human. The almost complete Viatkogorgon holotype specimen is about 80 cm (31 in) long, including the skull. The skull is 14 cm (5.5 in), the preserved part of the tail is approximately 17 cm (6.7 in), the forelimb is approximately 24 cm (9.4 in), and the hindlimb is more than 26.5 cm (10.4 in). [3]
Inostrancevia is an extinct genus of large carnivorous therapsids which lived during the Late Permian in what is now European Russia and Southern Africa.The first-known fossils of this gorgonopsian were discovered in the context of a long series of excavations carried out from 1899 to 1914 in the Northern Dvina, Russia.
This list of therapsids is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the Therapsida excluding mammals and purely vernacular terms.
Other notable fossil material from the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone includes the first appearance of larger gorgonopsid species such as Lycaenops ornatus, Cyonosaurus longiceps, and Gorgonops torvus. [20] It is noted that gorgonopsians take over from the basal therocephalians as the top predators from this biozone through to the end of the ...
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Therocephalia is an extinct clade of eutheriodont therapsids (mammals and their close relatives) from the Permian and Triassic periods. The therocephalians ("beast-heads") are named after their large skulls, which, along with the structure of their teeth, suggest that they were carnivores.