265-million-year-old #fossil reveals oldest, largest #predator in #SouthAmerica, long before the rise of #dinosaurs https://phys.org/news/2023-09-million-year-old-fossil-reveals-oldest-largest.html
Cranial #osteology of the Brazilian #dinocephalian Pampaphoneus biccai (#Anteosauridae: #Syodontinae) https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad071/7260715
"#Pampaphoneus, which belongs to the early #therapsid clade called #dinocephalians, lived just before the largest #extinction event in the history of #Earth that eliminated 86% of all #animal species worldwide."