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MOSCHOPS
(moe-shops)
meaning: "Calf face"
Moschops
Named By: Robert Broom in 1911
Time Period: Capitanian, 265-260 Ma
Location: South Africa - karoo
Size: Approximately 2.7 meters long
Diet: unavailable
Fossil(s): Several specimens
Classification: | Chordata | Therapsida | Dinocephalia | Tapinocephalia | Tapinocephalidae |
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Moschops (Greek for "calf face") is an extinct genus of therapsid that lived in the Guadalupian epoch, around 265-260 million years ago. Therapsids are synapsids, which were at one time the dominant land animals. Its remains were found in the Karoo region of South Africa.

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