The late Palaeozoic is a pivotal period for the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems.
Generalised warming and aridification trends resulted in profound floral and faunal turnover …

Until recently, the Guadalupian (middle Permian) tetrapod fossil record was known almost
exclusively from the Karoo Basin of South Africa and the Cis-Urals region of Russia, limiting …

Mammals are arguably the most conspicuous tetrapods in the modern biota. Although there
are fewer extant mammal species (~ 5,500) than birds (~ 10,000) or squamates (~ 10,000) …

Compsodon helmoedi is an obscure dicynodont originally described based on a single
specimen from the upper Permian of the Karoo Basin. The discovery of three new …

The dicynodont fauna of South America is comprehensively reviewed. Permian South
American dicynodont body fossils are known only from the Rio do Rasto Formation of …

Anomodontia was the most successful herbivorous clade of the mammalian stem lineage
(non‐mammalian synapsids) during the late Permian and Early Triassic. Among …

ABSTRACT The Triassic dicynodont Sangusaurus is poorly known because the holotype of
the first species to be described (S. edentatus from Zambia) is fragmentary, and the …

Abstract The Anteosauridae (Dinocephalia) were the largest predators of Guadalupian
(Middle Permian) land communities. The, thus far, only known South American anteosaurid …

Permian dicynodonts were discovered in strata exposed on the flanks of the Bogda
Mountains (Xinjiang, China) in 1928. Nearly all known specimens were collected in the …

Emydopoidea is one of the major dicynodont subclades and includes some purported
fossorial taxa. Various cranial and postcranial adaptations for fossoriality have long been …