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Sphenacodon ferocior

A genus of synapsid from late Carboniferous to early Permian North America. This carnivore was about 3 m. long and had large canine teeth at the front of its mouth for prey capture, and shearing teeth at the back for cutting bite sized lumps of flesh.

Artwork by Luther Wells

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I really liked that front and centre of the paleontology hall at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde were not dinosaur skeletons, but three synapsids. Much of the rock in the area is red sandstone from the Permian and Triassic (in fact I noticed while hiking in the Pfälzerwald that even the molehills were red!) so there’s been plenty of our own stem-relatives found here. These three are Dimetrodon, Gorgonops, and Tetragonias.

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Dimetrodon: it's a thought that I can count on. When my darkest thoughts have got a hold on me, I close my eyes and I remember all their giant teeth. To shake off the problems that have piled on, I picture the sail-backed giants of Dimetrodon.

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Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus surfing.

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Dimetrodon, the most famous of all extinct synapsids! It's a shame most of that fame seems to include it getting called a dinosaur. It's both closer to us and much older than the dinosaurs! They lived about 290 million years ago during the early Permian in the southwestern United States, which was a swampy river delta area at the time. It was a carnivore about the size of a crocodile and, of course, had a rather impressive sail on its back that only a glimpse of made it into this portrait. I decided to restore it with the scaly skin that Varanopsids, an even earlier more rootward branch of the the synpasid family tree, are known to have, although bare skin with neither scales nor fur as Estemmosuchus had is also a possibility.

Drawn while listening to Dimetrodon by The Doubleclicks.

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I just wanna make you all aware that the two species of the Permian synapsid Sphenacodon were named Sphenacodon ferox and Sphenacodon ferocior, which translate to "fierce wedge tooth" and "fiercer wedge tooth" respectively. Palaeontology is amazing.

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