Early synapsids neurosensory diversity revealed by CT and synchrotron scanning

J Benoit, R Araujo, ES Lund, A Bolton… - The Anatomical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… profound changes to their paleoneurology. These involve a … would have engaged in
head-butting suggests it may have … for head-to-head butting and ramming (eg, Moschops and …

[PDF][PDF] Palaeoneurology and palaeobiology of the dinocephalian therapsid Anteosaurus magnificus

J Benoit, A Kruger, S Jirah, V Fernandez… - Acta Palaeontologica …, 2021 - bibliotekanauki.pl
… non-head-butting dino cephalian with that of a head-butting tapinocephalid will … Synchrotron
scanning reveals the palaeoneurology of the head-butting Moschops capensis (Therapsida

Synchrotron scanning sheds new light on Lumkuia fuzzi (Therapsida, Cynodontia) from the Middle Triassic of South Africa and its phylogenetic placement

J Benoit, M Nxumalo, LA Norton, V Fernandez… - Journal of African Earth …, 2022 - Elsevier
… Here we use synchrotron X-ray computed tomography to describe the dental series and …
contribute to the glenoid fossa), and palaeoneurological (reduction of the external nasal ramus …

[HTML][HTML] The postcranial anatomy of Gorgonops torvus (Synapsida, Gorgonopsia) from the late Permian of South Africa

EM Bendel, CF Kammerer, RMH Smith, J Fröbisch - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
… Kemp (1969a) compared the atlas-axis complex in various therapsids, including gorgonopsians,
using information from several Tanzanian specimens (the “Scymnognathus” parringtoni …

[PDF][PDF] New and historical specimens of burnetiamorph therapsids, with comments on ontogeny, biogeography, and bizarre structures

CA Sidor - Palaeontologia africana, 2023 - wiredspace.wits.ac.za
… ) reveals transitory structures inconsistent with head-butting behavior. Paleobiology 30,
253–267. … Distributions of cranial pathologies provide evidence for head-butting in domeheaded …

Headbutting through time: A review of this hypothesized behavior in “dome‐headed” fossil taxa

DC Woodruff, NL Ackermans - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library
… such as Moschops] were used for head butting” (… synchrotron scans of a dinocephalian,
the detailed study of Benoit et al. (2017) examined the paleoneurology of Moschops capensis

Nonmammalian Synapsids

J Botha, A Huttenlocker - Vertebrate skeletal histology and …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
… However, we will first discuss nontherapsid eupelycosaurs as their histology is … Synchrotron
scanning reveals the palaeoneurology of the head-butting Moschops capensis (Therapsida, …

[HTML][HTML] The First Healed Bite Mark and Embedded Tooth in the Snout of a Middle Permian Gorgonopsian (Synapsida: Therapsida)

J Benoit, C Browning, LA Norton - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - frontiersin.org
therapsids (NMT). Here we describe, for the first time, the occurrence of a tooth embedded
in the snout of a gorgonopsian. The tooth is surrounded by a bony callus, which demonstrates

Cranial morphology and phylogenetic relationship of the enigmatic dinocephalian Styracocephalus platyrhynchus from the Karoo Supergroup, South Africa

SW Fraser-King, J Benoit, MO Day, BS Rubidge - 2019 - wiredspace.wits.ac.za
… is an unusual dinocephalian therapsid, known only from a … , CT scanning, and cladistic
analysis – reveals new character … The skeleton of Moschops capensis broom, a dinocephalian …

Micro-CT data reveal new information on the craniomandibular and neuroanatomy of the dicynodont Gordonia (Therapsida: Anomodontia) from the late Permian of …

H George, CF Kammerer, D Foffa… - Zoological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
… The endocast of Gordonia is similar to that of other non-cynodont therapsids, and has a …
to body size, reveal Gordonia has a similar EQ to most other non-cynodont therapsids. …