She said it lived before the dinosaurs and was part of a group called synapsids, which are more closely related ... as one of the top three fossil sites in the world for early Permian-era creatures.

dating back 265 million years to the Roadian stage of the Permian. Yet for decades, researchers have believed that therapsids split from their closest relatives, the sphenacodontid synapsids, as ...

At the end of the Permian Period (circa 250 million years ... the predominant form of life on land and in the sea were large reptiles and synapsids (mammal-like reptiles and our ancestors).

An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Magdeburg and Paris has for the first time ...

Gorgonopsians were an extinct group of synapsids that lived during the Permian period, between 270 and 250 million years ago. They are part of the evolutionary lineage that eventually led to the first ...

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The discovery of a newly identified species — the oldest saber-toothed animal found and an ancient cousin to mammals — fills a longstanding gap in the fossil record.

The synapsids, a group of vertebrates which dominated the Permian (Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus were two of its showier members) were culled. So was the most abundant terrestrial group of all ...

"Gorgonopsians are one of these extinct groups of non-mammalian synapsids, that lived during the Permian... They were important predators at that time, but they're a side branch of the synapsid ...

Reconstruction of the appearance in life of a gorgonopsian in a floodplain of the Permian of Mallorca (Henry Sutherland ... million years and 250 million years ago and are classified as synapsids, ...

For context, dinosaurs wouldn’t appear for another 25 million years, rising to prominence during the Triassic Period after the catastrophic mass extinction that marked the end of the Permian.