The dicynodont wastebasket genus Dicynodon is revised following a comprehensive review
of nominal species. Most nominal species of Dicynodon pertain to other well-known …

The late Palaeozoic is a pivotal period for the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems.
Generalised warming and aridification trends resulted in profound floral and faunal turnover …

Remains of parasites in vertebrates are rare from the Mesozoic and Paleozoic. Once most
parasites that live in–or pass through–the gastrointestinal tract of vertebrates, fossil feces …

Cat-like carnivorans are a textbook example of convergent evolution, with distinct
morphological differences between taxa with short or elongated upper canines, the latter …

Mammals are arguably the most conspicuous tetrapods in the modern biota. Although there
are fewer extant mammal species (~ 5,500) than birds (~ 10,000) or squamates (~ 10,000) …

Nocturnality is widespread among extant mammals and often considered the ancestral
behavioural pattern for all mammals. However, mammals are nested within a larger clade …

Compsodon helmoedi is an obscure dicynodont originally described based on a single
specimen from the upper Permian of the Karoo Basin. The discovery of three new …

The dicynodont fauna of South America is comprehensively reviewed. Permian South
American dicynodont body fossils are known only from the Rio do Rasto Formation of …

The oldest archosauromorphs (dinosaurs, birds, crocodiles, and their stem-taxa) are
recorded in middle− upper Permian rocks, but it was not after the Permo− Triassic mass …

Anomodontia was the most successful herbivorous clade of the mammalian stem lineage
(non‐mammalian synapsids) during the late Permian and Early Triassic. Among …