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Lycaenops

author: Walter B. Myers/Novapix

reference: t-din00-20170

Image Size 300 DPI: 51 * 28 cm

A three-foot-long, 35 pound carnivorous therapsid (mammal-like reptile) of the genus Lycaenops wanders a mountainous mid-Permian landscape 270 million years ago in what is today South Africa. Vegetation includes various ferns forming ground cover and a large cycad. While reptilian in origin, Lycaenops more resembled a modern wolf with a long and slender skull, wolf-like fangs, and long legs held close to its body which probably enabled it to out-run the small reptiles and dicynodonts it dined on.

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