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 | |
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.