Named By: | Robert Broom in 1925 |
Time Period: | Middle - Late Permian 270.6-251 Ma |
Location: | South Africa |
Size: | 1 meter long |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Complete specimen and additional partial skulls |
Classification: | | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | Gorgonopsia | |
Lycaenops ("Wolf-Face") is a genus of carnivorous therapsid. It lived during the late mid-Permian to the early Late Permian, about 270.6-251 mya, in what is now South Africa.