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    vegetation. Lystrosaurus was a heavily built, herbivorous animal. The structure of its shoulders and hip joints suggests that Lystrosaurus moved with a...
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    confined to this biozone. Lystrosaurus maccaigi and Lystrosaurus curvatus are the only two species found outside the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone in Upper...
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    genera, Lystrosaurus and Kwazulusaurus. Kwazulusaurus includes a single species, K. shakai, from the Late Permian of South Africa and Lystrosaurus includes...
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    are now great distances apart. For example, fossils of the therapsid Lystrosaurus have been found in South Africa, India and Antarctica, alongside members...
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    simocephalus and all dicynodonts more closely related to it than to the species Lystrosaurus murrayi. Despite being the most species-rich group of dicynodonts in...
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    dicynodonts had fleshy pads on their feet. Mummified skin from specimens of Lystrosaurus in South Africa have numerous raised bumps. Dicynodonts have long been...
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    torpid states. In 2020, scientists reported evidence of the torpor in Lystrosaurus living ~250 Mya in Antarctica – the oldest evidence of a hibernation-like...
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    Synapsids (also known as "mammal-like reptiles") included species such as Lystrosaurus, and were common during the Early Triassic. The Antarctic Peninsula began...
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    extinction event. Very few large synapsids survived the event, but one form, Lystrosaurus (a herbivorous dicynodont), attained a widespread distribution soon after...
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    dicynodonts are Daptocephalus (hence the name of the site), Diictodon and Lystrosaurus. Few genera of therocephalians are known within the site, only Moschorhinus...
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    distributions can be observed both in extinct and extant species. For example, Lystrosaurus was cosmopolitan in the Early Triassic after the Permian-Triassic extinction...
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  • temnospondyl within the family Tupilakosauridae. It is known from the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone in Thaba N'chu, Free State, South Africa. The genus contains...
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  • and the more derived Lystrosaurus; it has the wide skull roof of earlier dicynodonts, and a shortened snout like that of Lystrosaurus. Maisch, M.W. (2002)...
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  • life became extinct, and the most common vertebrate life on land were Lystrosaurus, labyrinthodonts, and Euparkeria along with many other creatures that...
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    hooked snout. It was a predator, which may have hunted prey such as Lystrosaurus. The lifestyle of Proterosuchus remains debated; it may have been terrestrial...
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  • such as Scutosaurus and proto-mammals, or mammal-like reptiles, such as Lystrosaurus. A female gorgonopsid successfully hunts down a Scutosaurus with her...
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    forced the mammaliaforms to develop fur and a higher metabolic rate. Lystrosaurus was a widespread dicynodont and the most common land vertebrate during...
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  • described as more vicious than the Velociraptors. Another new creature is Lystrosaurus, a therapsid rather than a dinosaur, which is portrayed with the use...
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    marine extinction. Dating of the boundary between the Dicynodon and Lystrosaurus assemblage zones in the Karoo Basin indicates that the terrestrial extinction...
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    Glossopteris and Gangamopteris, and the therapsid or mammal-like reptile Lystrosaurus, all widely distributed over South America, Africa, Antarctica, India...
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  • traits to some of these other formations, including the dominance of Lystrosaurus and the primary predators being proterosuchid reptiles. It also preserves...
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  • one example; another is the discovery of fossils of the land reptile Lystrosaurus in rocks of the same age at locations in Africa, India, and Antarctica...
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    species, the type species Regisaurus jacobi, from the Early Triassic Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of South Africa, although at least one undescribed species...
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  • Akidnognathidae. Fossils of Olivierosuchus have been found from the Early Triassic Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone in South Africa. Unlike other akidnognathids such as...
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    but this was mostly in the form of disaster taxa, such as the hardy Lystrosaurus. The most recent research indicates that the specialized animals that...
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    Galesaurus Howesia Ictidosuchoides Kannemeyeria Lepidodendron Lydekkerina Lystrosaurus Melanorosaurus Mesosuchus Microgomphodon Micropholis Myosaurus Noteosuchus...
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    Stratigraphic and sedimentological investigation of the contact between the Lystrosaurus and the Cynognathus assemblage zones (Beaufort group: Karoo supergroup)...
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    on to be successful in the new early Triassic landscape; they include Lystrosaurus and Cynognathus, the latter of which appeared later in the early Triassic...
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  • prologue. Other deleted scenes include a fight between an Oviraptor and a Lystrosaurus in the black market and a two-minute confrontation between Ramsay and...
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  • carnivorous cynodonts from the Early Triassic. It is known from the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of the Normandien Formation in South Africa. P. elegans...
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