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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

Xenacanthus is a prehistoric shark from the early Permian. They were a metre in length.

(Credit: Nobu Tamura)

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2019-10-27

Lanthanosuchus is an extinct parareptile from the Late Permian that grew to 75cm.

(Credit: Nobu Tamura)

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2019-08-24

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

Morning warmup sketch. A pair of Estemmenosuchus bulls fighting. Estemmenosuchus is a large, middle Permian therapsid genus characterized by having odd antler-like horns and bumps on its skull. This was another taxon sugggested by my IG followers

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2019-07-25

When Dimetrodon and Ammonites roamed the Permian... (E. Boyd Smith, 1944)

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2019-07-18

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

Started this sketch yesterday of a Gorgonopsid. :3

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2019-04-27

Results from the
Tapinocanius, Proterochampsa, Tylocephalonyx and Simbakubwa.

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2019-04-21

Say hello to FRE☆KY Doge Studios' offical mascot, Sobëk~! She is a Late Permian proto mammal, Inostrancevia Gorgonopsia dubbed with the coolest nick name of Wolf of the Permian

Icon by this cool dude

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2019-03-22

Therocephalians are another group of therapsids that made it into the Triassic. They were probably distributed throughout Pangea during the Early Triassic. One genus (Moschorhinus) is believed to have survived the Permian extinction

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2019-02-23

For I am opening a thread about Early Triassic tetrapod faunal assemblages. After the Permian extinction, terrestrial faunal assemblages were depauperate and most were very similar in composition. Temnospondyls were quick to diversify

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2019-02-22

What an absolute whopper! The Permian sea has some big fish to catch! I wonder if an armored fish tastes good?

Personal doodle!

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2019-02-20

Inostrancevia, probably the most commonly depicted Permian gorgonopsid. I did this fairly quickly, mostly just to experiment with integument. The loose, almost sketchy rendering is supposed to be kind of tough, kind of wrinkly skin with some hairs/bristles

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2019-01-22

Chroniosuchus is an extinct reptiliomorph from the upper Permian of Russia. It reached 1.5 metres long.

(Credit: Roman Yevseyev, dustdevil)

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2019-01-22

Only three groups of Synapsids/therapsids survived the end-Permian mass extinction event into the Early Triassic: dicynodonts (top), therocephalians (center), and cynodonts (bottom). Only the latter (our relatives) survived into the Jurassic.

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2018-12-12

Prince of the underworld
Partially inspired with Mussorgsky's Gnome and numerous legends from tundra about Chude people, a tribe that went underground. In some rare Komi-Permian variants Chudes were said to have pitch-black skin or even fur.

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2018-11-30

Permian landscape (Changhsingian) from Lodève's remains near la Lieude. France.

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2018-11-28

Finished Cotylorhynchus!!! Gave this Early Permian synapsid some cornified pads on the skin to help it dig/burrow, which is what it likely did with those action figure forelimbs it's got.

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2018-11-20