The dicynodont wastebasket genus Dicynodon is revised following a comprehensive review
of nominal species. Most nominal species of Dicynodon pertain to other well-known …

The fossil record of mid to late Permian terrestrial vertebrates in the South African Karoo
Basin is regarded as the most abundant and diverse in the world. Despite the extensive …

A study on the most exhaustive taxonomic sample of amniotes (75 extant and nine extinct
taxa) of any quantitative work on this topic published so far demonstrates a strong …

The evolutionary transition from early synapsids to therian mammals involved profound
reorganization in locomotor anatomy and function, centered around a shift from “sprawled” …

The sprawling–parasagittal postural shift was a major transition during synapsid evolution,
underpinned by reorganization of the forelimb, and considered key to mammalian ecological …

It is generally accepted that during the Triassic the composition of tetrapod faunas
underwent a series of fundamental transformations, mainly as a result of diversification of …

The twelve Gondwanan stratigraphic horizons of India have yielded varied vertebrate fossils.
The oldest fossil record is the Endothiodon-dominated multitaxic Kundaram fauna, which …

Gorgonopsians are among the most recognizable groups of synapsids from the Permian
period and have an extensive but mostly cranial fossil record. By contrast, relatively little is …

Lystrosaurus was one of the few tetrapods to survive the end-Permian mass extinction
(EPME), the most catastrophic biotic crisis in Phanerozoic history. The significant increased …

Lystrosaurus is iconic for surviving the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction and becoming the
most abundant terrestrial vertebrate during the Early Triassic. Previous reports of skeletal …