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
Anteosaurus
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Anteosaurus is an extinct genus of large carnivorous dinocephalian synapsid. It lived at the end of the Guadalupian during the Capitanian age, about 262 to 260 million years ago, in what is now South
Lycosuchus
…of most other large therocephalians (including its close relative Simorhinella and most scylacosaurids), as well as larger therapsid carnivores like Anteosaurus. Lycosuchus is the last known lycosuchid in the fossil record, and it may have competed with large gorgonopsians (such as Gorgonops) as the ecosystem…
Iziko South African Museum in July, 2018 – 53 retouched
3D sculpted model of Anteosaurus in various views
Maxillary canal system
Holotype (BMNH R3595) skull roof of A. magnificus. In this specimen the postfrontal bosses are particularly massive. This skull was discovered near Beaufort West in the Western Cape Province.