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Gorgonopsia

Gorgonopsia (from the Greek Gorgon, a mythological beast, and óps 'aspect') is an extinct clade of sabre-toothed therapsids from the Middle to the Upper Permian, roughly between 270 and 252 million years ago. They are characterised by a long and narrow skull, as well as elongated upper and sometimes lower canine teeth and incisors which were likely used…

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related to Evolution · 42
Gorgonopsia → African, Although, American, Anomodontia, Artinskian, Biarmosuchia, Canonge Formation, Chickasha Formations, Cisuralian, Cynodontia, Dinocephalia, Early Permian, Everett, Flowerpot, Furthermore, Guadalupian, He, Kungurian, Mallorca, Mallorcan
related to Classification · 38
Gorgonopsia → American, Because, Binarialia, British, Broom, Broom's, Consequently, Diapsida, English, Gorgonops, Gorgonopsidae, Harry Seeley, He, Henry Fairfield Osborn, In, Karoo, Karoo Supergroup, Latin, Many, Mononarialia
related to Fossil bearing sites · 30
Gorgonopsia → Beaufort Group, Chiweta, Gorgonops, Gorgonopsians, Greek Gorgon, He, In, In Africa, Inostrancevia, Inostranzevia, Karoo, Karoo Supergroup, Malawi, Nochnitsa, Northern Dvina, Pravoslavlevia, Richard Owen, Ruhuhu Valley, Russia, Russian
related to Extinction · 26
Gorgonopsia → Africa, Among, Both, Cyonosaurus, Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone, Daptocephalus AZ, Despite, Early Triassic, Eastern Europe, Following, In Eastern Europe, Initially, Inostrancevia, Jurassic, Karoo Basin, Majority, Middle, Permian, Prior, PTEM
related to Paleoenvironment · 22
Gorgonopsia → Bunostegos, Deltavjatia, During, Following, It, Karoo Sea, Lake Eyre, Lycosuchidae, Middle, Moradisaurus, Namib Desert, Russia, Russian, Salarevskian Formation, Scutosaurus, Scylacosauridae, South Africa, South African Beaufort Group, The, The Moradi Formation
related to Bite · 15
Gorgonopsia → Among, Because, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Clelandina, Gorgonopsian, Gorgonopsians, In, Inostrancevia, Instead, It, Less, Smilesaurus, The, This, Tyson Secco
related to Senses · 14
Gorgonopsia → Among, Based, Carboniferous, Clelandina, Cyonosaurus, Gorgonopsians, It, Jacobson's, Kammerer, Nocturnal, SAM-PK-K10034, The, Unlike, Viatkogorgon
related to Teeth · 12
Gorgonopsia → Both, Clelandina, Homotherium, In, Inostrancevia, Like, Rubidgea, Sabres, Similar, Some, The, They
related to Description · 9
Gorgonopsia → Earlier, Inostrancevia, Like, Middle Permian, Nonetheless, Other, Permian, These, This
related to Locomotion · 9
Gorgonopsia → All, Consequently, Gorgonopsians, If, Lizards, The, They, This, When

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gorgonopsians would permian gorgonopsian middle large may therapsids also teeth upper mammals early canines could skull taxa prey species therocephalians

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theropodsinstance ofand it has been suggested for several extinct lineages0.80text
aquatic reptilesinstance ofand it has been suggested for several extinct lineages0.80text
and saber-toothed catsinstance ofand it has been suggested for several extinct lineages0.80text
Cyonosaurus up into the Early Triassicinstance ofit was thought that some smaller taxa of0.80text
but later analysis found it to have been erroneousinstance ofit was thought that some smaller taxa of0.80text
Gorgonopsiarelated to BiteGorgonopsians0.60section
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Gorgonopsiarelated to BiteLess0.60section
Gorgonopsiarelated to BiteSmilesaurus0.60section
Gorgonopsiarelated to BiteInostrancevia0.60section
Gorgonopsiarelated to BiteClelandina0.60section
Gorgonopsiarelated to BiteGorgonopsian0.60section

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