Lycosuchus
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Lycosuchus is a genus of early therocephalian that lived roughly 260–258 million years ago, straddling the boundary of the Middle and Late Permian period, from what is now South Africa. The type and o
Lycosuchus holotype
L. vanderrieti partial skull (MB.R.995) at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
Artist's interpretation of Lycosuchus in life with exposed canines and hypothetical hair
Photograph and digital model of the right snout of Lycosuchus MB.R.995
Lycosuchidae
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Lycosuchidae is a family of therocephalians known from fossils from what is now the Beaufort Group of South Africa and that lived during the Middle to Late Permian between roughly 265 to 258 million y
Lycosuchus
…pairs occurs much more frequently compared to typical therapsids (where this condition is rarely preserved). Lycosuchus forms the basis of the family Lycosuchidae and is a distinct lineage from most other early therocephalians (most of which belong to the family Scylacosauridae). It is one of the earliest…
UCMP 42667, a complete skeleton of a lycosuchid.
Digital reconstruction of the upper teeth of Lycosuchus and their replacements within the jaw bone (transparent), viewed from the inside. Note the large size of the replacement canine (C2) and the developing direct replacement (yellow) for the first canine (C1) on the right.