# lycaenops dicynodont ischigualastia therapsid anomodont synapsid paleoart sciart paleontology permian triassic 2022mmm drawdinovember drawdinovember2021 fossilfriday art synapsids mammalmonday

("wolf-face") is a genus of carnivorous therapsids. It lived during the Middle Permian to the early Late Permian, about 260 mya, in what is now South Africa.

1 16
2022-04-24

I'm pushing the limits here, scaly Therapsids looks uncanny but I kinda like it

56 485
2022-04-20

Dicynodonts were members of a diverse clade of non-mammalian therapsids. This is Ischigualastia, from Argentina.

https://t.co/PlBMaQW3Hi

Design by

17 80
2022-04-18

First up, Lystrosaurus maccaigi is a non-mammalian Therapsid, which is to say that they belong to the group which hosts the origin of true mammals but they themselves are not directly related to mammals. All non-mammalian Therapsids are extinct. ☠️#2022MMM

13 85
2022-03-18

Here's a (ti)Gorgonops concept art I made for the new year! Love these therapsids

13 43
2022-01-30

A Gorgonops (gorgon face) returns to the cave it cached leftovers from an earlier meal. These therapsids existed 250 MYA during the Late Permian.

177 830
2021-11-29

Some fresh artwork I whipped up for Ali's new Biarmosuchian ontogeny paper (https://t.co/CigDXJfK2T)

Oh how I love therapsids :3

I wanted an organic way of contrasting the simple skulls of the baby biarmosuchians with the knobby adult skulls.
Enjoy!

28 91
2021-08-28

Daily doodle - my favourite mammals are the mammals that never been, the therapsids. Here's Sauroctonus

72 522
2021-03-12

Let sleeping Gorgonops lie (unless you wanna get chomped). I’ve been meaning to draw more of these Permian therapsids and today seemed like a good a time as any.

7 45
2020-12-19

Morning warmup speedpaint/sketch. Suminia, one of my favorite therapsids. Suminia was a small arboreal anomodontian therapsid (so distantly related to us mammals) that lived during the Late Permian in Europe

65 356
2020-11-24

Sphenacodon

A 3 meter long pelycosaur with a low bony crest running along its back, they where apex predators until therapsids like gorgonops replaced them

ALT: sphenacodon was actually discovered before dimetrodon, but didn't get much attention by paleontologists at the time

6 22
2020-09-27

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.

106 526
2020-06-01

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

15 103
2020-04-03

Work in progress. The large gorgonopsian Rubidgea, foraging along a river bank. Late Permian of South Africa. I had the idea for this illustration this morning and I had to start working on it, hopefully I’ll finish it some time in the future

81 400
2020-02-08

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

1 4
2020-01-15

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

77 338
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

11 34
2019-02-23

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.

89 285
2018-12-12

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!

21 56
2018-09-21