Mounted skeleton of Moschops capensis. The skeleton is displayed at the American Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Synapsida
Clade:
Therapsida
Suborder:
†Dinocephalia
Infraorder:
†Tapinocephalia
Family:
†Tapinocephalidae Lydekker, 1890
Subgroups
†Tapinocanininae
†Tapinocaninus
†Tapinocephalinae
†Riebeeckosaurini
†Riebeeckosaurus
†Struthiocephalini
†Struthiocephalus
†Tapinocephalini
†Moschopina
†Criocephalosaurus
†Moschops
†Ulemosaurus
†Tapinocephalina
†Keratocephalus
†Tapinocephalus
Tapinocephalidae is an extinct family of advanced tapinocephalians. It is defined as the clade containing Ulemosaurus, Tapinocaninus, and the Tapinocephalinae.[1] They are known from both Russia and South Africa. In all probability, the Tapinocephalidae had a worldwide (Pangean) distribution. They flourished briefly during the Wordian and Capitanian ages, radiating into several lineages, existing simultaneously, and differing mainly in details of the skull and, to an even lesser degree, the skeleton. It is not clear how such similar animals could each find their own ecological niche, but such was obviously the case. There is a parallel here with the hadrosaur and ceratopsian dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous. The cause of their abrupt extinction is not clear, since other smaller animals, and even the pareiasaurs, were not affected. Quite probably, like the extinction of the late Pleistocene megafauna, a number of factors were involved.
Tapinocephalidae is an extinct family of advanced tapinocephalians. It is defined as the clade containing Ulemosaurus, Tapinocaninus, and the Tapinocephalinae...
broad orbits and heavily built short necks. Like other members of Tapinocephalidae, the skull had a tiny opening for the pineal organ. The occiput was...
before the Karoo forms, showing that the Moschopines, and indeed the Tapinocephalidae in general, had already attained their acme by early Capitanian time...
Dimacrodon ?Driveria ?Mastersonia Family Styracocephalidae Family Tapinocephalidae Family Titanosuchidae Evolution of mammals List of Permian tetrapods...
Moschognathus is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsid in the family Tapinocephalidae. The genus includes only the type species M. whaitsi, named by palaeontologist...
"canine"- caninus) is an extinct genus of therapsids in the family Tapinocephalidae, of which it is the most basal member. Only one species is known, Tapinocaninus...
The Abrahamskraal Formation is a geological formation and is found in numerous localities in the Northern Cape, Western Cape, and the Eastern Cape of South...
may have been used in head-butting, but to a lesser degree than in Tapinocephalidae or Anteosauridae. They had large canine teeth, strong incisors with...
titanosuchians and classified as members of Theriodontia, while the herbivorous Tapinocephalidae were classified as members of Anomodontia. Anomodontia includes the...
(middle of the Middle Permian), before being themselves replaced by the Tapinocephalidae during the Capitanian age (late Middle Permian). Permian tetrapods...
clades: Styracocephalidae, Titanosuchidae, and the very successful Tapinocephalidae. Notable tapinocephalians include Moschops, Tapinocephalus, and Titanosuchus...
Osteology of the Reptiles. OCLC 236743. "Therapsida: Tapinocephalia: Tapinocephalidae: Keratocephalus". Palaeos. Archived from the original on November 18...
Tapinocephalia branch and more specifically, in the Tapinocephalidae family named by Boonstra in 1969. Tapinocephalidae are regarded as the most derived and also...
Estemmenosuchidae Family Anteosauridae Family Titanosuchidae Family Tapinocephalidae Suborder Gorgonopsia Family Gorgonopsidae Suborder Anomodontia/Dicynodontia...
Gillian King Origins of the Higher Groups of Tetrapods: Controversy and Consensus by Hans-Peter Schultze and Linda Trueb Tapinocephalidae at Paleos v t e...
heels. The incisors containing crushing heels are like those seen in Tapinocephalidae, Titanosuchidae and Dinocephalia. The presence of lingual heels indicates...
head-butting behaviour requiring however less energy than that of the Tapinocephalidae. Ashley Kruger and team in 2016 described a juvenile specimen of Anteosaurus...
crest. List of therapsids Paleontology portal The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive Tapinocephalidae at Kheper v t e...
very thick and rugose. The same situation is found in the herbivorous Tapinocephalidae, and it has been proposed that these animals engaged in head-butting...
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