#suminia

[yee-qi]

Suminia, a Permian non-mammal synapsid! I based its appearance off of iguanas and gave it a funny bumpy skin texture in lieu of hair.

[fossillad123]

barrel of synapsids

[ppaleoartistgallery]

#Paleostream 5/04/2025

here's today's #Paleostream sketches!!!

today we sketched Terminonatator, Armadillosuchus, Suminia, and Kongonaphon

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…

Here's a study of the (probably) arboreal Suminia, commissioned in 2022 for a project I cannot talk about yet. It is a small therapsid, which I chose to make hairy but it might not have been.

[the-dragon-girl-27]

flocking posts

Terminonatator, Armadillosuchus, Suminia, and Kongonaphon

[impulseimpact]

paleostream flocking 4th april 2025

terminonatator armadillosuchus suminia kongonaphon

[veloci-raptor]

Flocking Together

Terminonatator/Armadillosuchus

Suminia/Kongonaphon

[cellulosaurus]

Suminia, a weird little arboreal early therapsid from the late permian. Being an anomodont, it was a distant relative of dicynodonts, those beaked herbivores with a pair of tusks.

Additionnal little sketches:

I decided to give it slit pupil by analogy with spotted cuscus and koalas, which are slow moving arboreal folivores (that eat leaves), much like Suminia. While we don’t know is suminia was active day and night like the marsupials mentioned above, I don’t think it is an unreasonable assumption

The eyes of the common spotted cuscus, Michael Thirnbeck

The exact function of the slit pupil is still somewhat debated as far as I know, but it seems they are linked to activity in both light and dark, and estimating distances. Most studies focus on the predatory animals that have them, because they are the large majority, but none have looked at folivorous marsupials. Nonetheless, being able to precisely estimate distances in the complex 3D environment these animals live in might be helpful

The slit pupil of koalas, Koala Clancy foundation