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Doliosauriscus

author: Walter B. Myers/Novapix

reference: t-din00-20150

Image Size 300 DPI: 51 * 28 cm

12-foot-long dinocephalian therapsids of the genus Doliosauriscus face off in a dry mid-Permian landscape 265 million years ago in what is today Russia. On the horizon is a synapsid of the genus Dimetrodon. Vegetation includes various ferns and cycads. Similar to its better-known relative Titanophoneus, Doliosauriscus was a carnivore, one of the largest predators of its time with large dagger-like canines in front and sharp incisors and flat molars in back for grinding up flesh.

Keywords for this photo:

2014 - ANIMAL - DIMETRODON - DOLIOSAURISCUS - EARTH - FAUNA - FLORA - HISTORY OF EARTH - ILLUSTRATION - PALEOZOIC - PERMIAN - POSTER - SYNAPSID -