Fossilized Skull of the Sabre-toothed Lycaenops (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

Fossilized Skull of the Sabre-toothed Lycaenops

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The sabre-toothed Lycaenops was a top predator of the latest Permian in South Africa. Lycaenops was a gorgonopsian, one of a group of highly successful animals that dominated faunas in the Late Permian, but were wiped out, together with 90 per cent of all species, by the end-Permian mass extinction.

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Mike Benton, University of Bristol

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