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LYCAENOPS
(ly-can-ops)
meaning: "Wolf face"
Lycaenops
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 |
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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.

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