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MEGAWHAITSIA
(meg-ah-wayt-se-ah)
Named By: M. F. Ivakhnenko in 2008
Time Period: 260.5-251.0 Ma
Location: Russia
Size: Skull estimated to be about 40 to 50 centimetres long
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Maxilla
Classification: | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | Therocephalia | Whaitsiidae |
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Megawhaitsia is an extinct genus of large therapsid, potentially a therocephalian. It lived in the Late Permian in East Russia, and is known only by a maxilla, with a skull estimated to be 40-50 cm.

Read more about Megawhaitsia at Wikipedia
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