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Gorgonops
Temporal range: Lopingian (Wuchiapingian), 260–254 Ma
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G. whaitsi skull (specimen 5537)
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Synapsida
Clade:
Therapsida
Clade:
†Gorgonopsia
Family:
†Gorgonopsidae
Subfamily:
†Gorgonopsinae
Genus:
†Gorgonops Owen, 1876
Type species
†Gorgonops torvus
Owen, 1876
Species
†G. torvus Owen, 1876
†G. whaitsi Broom, 1912
†G. longifrons Haughton, 1915
Gorgonops (from Greek: Γοργών 'Gorgon' and ὤψ 'eye, face', literally 'Gorgon eye' or 'Gorgon face') is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian therapsid, of which it is the type genus. Gorgonops lived during the Late Permian (Wuchiapingian), about 260–254 million years ago in what is now South Africa.
determined to be synonyms. Gorgonops is known from the Tropidostoma and most of the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zones. Gorgonops was a medium-sized gorgonopsian...
Lydekker made Gorgonops the type species of the family Gorgonopsidae. British palaeontologist Harry Seeley in 1895 believed Gorgonops lacked an opening...
fatal bites. First regularly classified as close to African taxa such as Gorgonops or rubidgeines, phylogenetic analyses published since 2018 consider it...
Gebauer (2007): Paleontology portal Evolution of mammals List of therapsids Gorgonops Colbert, Edwin H. (1948). "The mammal-like reptile Lycaenops". Bulletin...
ivachnenkoi in 1999. The generic name refers to the river and the related genus Gorgonops—the gorgons of Greek mythology are often referenced in the names of the...
Inostrancevia Suchogorgon Scymnognathus is now considered as a junior synonym of Gorgonops. A. P. Hartmann-Weinberg (1938). "Gorgonopsians as time indicators". Problems...
Eriphostoma has delta-shaped palatine bosses covered in numerous teeth, like Gorgonops and many basal therapsids, but not more derived gorgonopsians which tend...
(identified as a placoderm), Acanthostega, Hyneria, Pederpes, Dinocephalian, Gorgonops, Diictodon (fossil), and Cynodont. This episode centres on the Permian...
classification by also including various genera of gorgonopsians (including Gorgonops) and dinocephalians. From 1903 to 1907 Broom added more therocephalian...
Permian. Cynodraco was one of the first gorgonopsian taxa named, alongside Gorgonops and Lycosaurus, which were named in the same publication. Fossils of Cynodraco...
at 30 cm (12 in), assuming it had similar proportions to the related Gorgonops. For comparison, the largest Late Permian gorgonopsians such as Inostrancevia...
starting with Broom's original declaration that Scylacops is “allied with Gorgonops torous,” morphological similarities point to it as a close relative of...
present include Aelurognathus, Aelurosaurus, Aloposaurus, Cyonosaurus, Gorgonops (most common), Lycaenops, and Scymnognathus. Within the Karoo Supergroup...
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