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A small school of dorypterus shadow a helicoprion in the hopes feeding on the leftovers from its next kill.

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Anteosaurus, bane of the Permian. A titanic synapsid, build like a cress between bear and komodo dragon but the size of a rhino.

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Scutosaurus, Mark Witton

The snow of ash had caught up with the reptile. It settled silently on the vegetation, dusted the creature’s armor. Behind, the volcano crackled and seethed. Seams of red laced the simmering, heaving rock like fresh wounds. Small fires kicked up as the burning river met tree and bush, roaring urgently for  some minutes, drowning out the volcano’s more sinister sounds. But when those fires died, the whispers of the weird, hot froth filled the air again.

Scutosaurus ignored the sounds and had tolerated the smell. Gasses leaked unseen from the rock, their scent sharp and sulphurous, as if millions of red-headed matches were constantly being dragged against a mountain-sized striker; but now the fumes were irritating its eyes, clawing at its throat, burning the raw insides of its nostrils. With a huff, the beast marched away from the fires and vapors and surging rock. 

There was no reason to stay, of course. The ash was creating a thick, gray blanket over the green, and covered so, the plants tasted only of soot. But by its galumphing tread and its eyes, cool and tired, carrying a grandfather’s dimly disappointed stare, one might think the animal resented the very earth for the inconvenience.

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Sakarian

Sakmarian is an age  or stage of the permian . It is a subdivision of the Cisuralian epoch or series. The Sakmarian lasted between 295.0  0.18 and 290.1  0.26 million years ago. It was preceded by the asselian and followed by the artinskian.

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Wolfcampain

Wolfcampian The basal series in the permain of North. America, underlain by the Virgilian Series, overlain by the leonardian, and roughly contemporaneous with the asselian and lower sakmarian stages.

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Ochoan

Ochan is a stage in the Permian stratigraphy  of Noth America. The Ochoan age is roughly simultaneous with the Changhsingian Age in the timescale of the ICS. This post-Guadalupian stage is known for high levels of evaporite deposits.

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Asselain

Asselian is the earliest geochronologic age or lowermost chronostratigraphic stage of the Permain. It is a subdivision of the Cisuralian epoch or series. The Asselian lasted between 298.9  0.15 and 295.0  0.18 million years ago . It was preceded by the Gzhelian  and followed by the Sakmarian .