Named By: | unavailable |
Time Period: | Wuchiapingian, 260-254 Ma |
Location: | South Africa - Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone zone |
Size: | Unavailable |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Partial remains |
Classification: | | Chordata | Synapsida | Gorgonopsia | |
Gorgonops (from Greek Gorgon -Gorgon- and ops -eye, face-, literally "Gorgon' eye" or "Gorgon' face") is an extinct genus of therapsid which lived about 260-254 million years ago, during the Late Permian. It was a typical representative of the suborder Gorgonopsia, the dominant predators of their day, which in the largest forms grew to over three metres long.