Jan 12, 2025
Portrait of the diapsid reptile Youngina capensis from the Late Permian of the Karoo basin (South Africa). This is the second drawing in Paint after Vastatosaurus) Angina belongs to the Younginidae family, which was assigned to the order of the so-called Eosuchians, a group of small Permian-Triassic diapsids that became a wastebasket of not too closely related species. This reptile is known from several specimens, some of which were previously considered separate genera. Its anatomy combines features of primitive diapsids and more progressive groups. Being a small creature (the length of the skull is 5 cm with a total length of 30 cm), angina hunted insects in the shadow of the prevailing therapsids at that time.
Paint, 2024.