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Moschops was a therapsid that lived before the dinosaurs did. They also are closer to mammals like us than to the dinosaurs that would appear later!

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2020-06-10

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

therapsid hunks

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2020-05-28

Just finished the first season of Star Trek and unexpectedly my favorite character is Try imagining him as a permian therapsid and you might like him more.

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2020-04-22

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

they're extinct, but gorgonopsians!! they're a subgroup of therapsids that were called "mammal-like reptiles" for their mixture of mammalian & reptilian feature. their sizes ranged anywhere from small dog to bear-sized

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2020-01-15

Anyway, back to Spindler's paper. They provide a new reconstruction of the smushed skull, calling into question a number of the characters previously used to support the therapsid affinity. They decide its a pelycosaur, but more primitive than I found, outside sphenacodontids

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2020-01-12

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

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

Results from the Therapsid
Kannemayeria, Dvinia, Thronaxodon and Lemurosaurus.

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2019-01-21

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

For the slide that started our paper in Proc B! A jaw cross-section of a therapsid shows some teeth fused in place and others suspended in sockets. That's because they are two stages in the lifecycle of a typical tooth! Mammals keep teeth in the "earlier" stage.

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2018-11-10

For here is a gif showing how backbone regionalization changed during mammal evolution. The highly modular structure of mammals has allowed them to adapt to diverse environments and move in many different ways. Thanks for paving the way non-mammalian therapsids!

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2018-09-21

Fee Fitzsimmons was an NPC for five seconds and then we fell in love with her and now we’re keeping her (also she has a crush on ’s burple cleric Drell). I wasn’t sold on 5e puppynose but I added therapsid and gecko to the brew and here we are.

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2018-08-12

Its and since I am including a few size charts in my book, here is the one I am still working on for therapsids of the Triassic and Jurassic. Size comparison with a 1.8 m human. they were not huge but many were not super tiny either.

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2018-07-09

WIP Its so here is an indeterminate Sinokannemeyeriine dicynodont from the Lipovskaya Fm. Not a mammal nor a cynodont but a distant relative therapsid from Early Triassic (Olenekian) Russia. One of the approx. 20 spp that will appear in my book

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2018-01-09