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PERMIAN PERIOD Wuchiapingian Age

The Wuchiapingian Age

The Wuchiapingian Age of the Lopingian Epoch: 260 to 254 million years ago


Acme of the Therapsids

A Wuchiapingian Bestiary

 

Late Permian fauna

Representative animals from the Daptocephalus/Dicynodon assemblage zone (early/middle Wuchiapingian) of Gondwana (South Africa)
included here is a are large temnospondyl of the rhinesuchid family, a small advanced procynosuchid Therapsid, an ox-sided herbivorous Pareiasaur, a small diapsid lizard (Paliguana), a large herbivorous Dicynodont, and a Gorgonopsian therapsid, which was very much the top predator of this environment
Illustration by Dr Bob Bakker


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