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Styracocephalus; an unusual dinocephalian synapsid from Middle Permian South Africa. It was a herbivore (despite their pointed canines) with bony ornamental protrusions covering it's head; believed to have provided social/sexual communications.

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2020-06-12

Some work doodles.
Got:
Toad Synapsid, Large sword knight, King Ghidorah, A man shaped knife thing, and some fella I didnt vibe with.

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2020-06-11

Morning sketch. Portrait of Tetraceratops insignis, a small basal sphenacodontian synapsid (probably close to therapsids) from Early Permian North America. A distant relative to all of us mammals.

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2020-06-01

Time for We like to think of tooth replacement as a tidy process. But here are 4 cross sections of jaws that show chunks of older teeth that were left behind in the bone! Happens a lot in animals that continually replace their teeth, like these extinct synapsids.

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2020-05-23

Tatsächlich waren Dimetrodons als Synapside deutlich näher an Säugetieren dran als man aus klassischen Rekonstruktionen ziehen kann :p
Hier eine Aktuellere, man beachte die Beine unter dem Körper ^^

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2020-04-30

I just realized I have a almost always depicted dinocephalian therapsids in combat or attacking some other animal! 🤔 That is not that usual for me

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2020-04-03

You have traveled back in time to Late Permian South Africa and all of the sudden you run into this pair of Moschops capensis head butting! What a sight that must have been! Moschops was a dinocephalian therapsid, this a very distant relative of ours

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2020-04-02

Sailed animals are generally quite interesting to me. Most people would refer to Spinosaurus for a sailed animal. And no, this isn't Dimetrodon, this is Secodontosaurus, another Synapsid.

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2020-02-08

Sketch portrait. Secodontosaurus, the lesser known, long-snouted relative of Dimetrodon (which usually gets all the attention). I’m not super happy with it but I don’t have more time today to keep tweaking it. This animal has a weird skull.

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2020-02-04

The herbivore apinocephalus was the largest of all non-mammal synapsids, at 4 metres in length & 2,000 kg.

(Credit: WillemSvdMerwe)

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2020-01-01

Bulbasaurus was a Permian synapsid from South Africa. It was named after its bulbous skull, however the describers said the similarity in name to a Pokemon 'may not be entirely coincidental'.

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2019-10-30

Ophiacodon is an extinct synapsid that roamed Europe & North America during the Late Carboniferous. They grew to 3 metres in length & spent a lot of time in the water.

(Credit: Mineo Shiraishi)

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2019-09-26

Morning warmup sketch for I was thinking of this scene where a Pristerognathus (therocephalian) chases a Diictodon (dicynodont) that was caught too far out of its burrow. Permian (Capitanian) of South Africa.

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2019-08-09

Today on "Dinosaurs!" weirdness, the Permian synapsid Moschops. It didn't make too many appearances in the magazines, but these two (both only credited as National History Museum) stood out to me as particularily derpy.

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2019-07-10

Congratulapsid, you’re a synapsid!

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2019-06-22

Started this sketch yesterday of a Gorgonopsid. :3

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2019-04-27