num_pages: 352
description: Part I. "Pelycosaur"-grade Synapsids 1. Introduction Robert R. Reisz 2. New Information on the Basal Pelycosaurian-grade Synapsid Oedaleops Stuart S. Sumida, Valerie Pelletier, and David S Berman 3. Was Ophiacodon ( Eupelycosauria) a Swimmer? A Test Using Vertebral Dimensions Ryan N. Felice and Kenneth D. Angielczyk 4. Postcranial Description and Reconstruction of the Varanodontine Varanopid Aerosaurus wellesi ( Eupelycosauria) Valerie Pelletier 5. First European Record of a Varanodontine ( Varanopidae): Member of a Unique Early Permian Upland Paleoecosystem, Tambach Basin, Central Germany David S Berman, Amy C. Henrici, Stuart S. Sumida, Thomas Martens, and Valerie Pelletier Part II. Anomodontia 6. Introduction Jörg Fröbisch 7. Permian and Triassic Dicynodont ( Anomodontia) Faunas of the Luangwa Basin, Update and Implications for Dicynodont Biogeography and Biostratigraphy Kenneth D. Angielczyk, Jean-Sébastien Steyer, Christian A. Sidor, Roger M. H. Smith, Robin L. Whatley, and Stephen Tolan 8. Anatomical Plasticity in the Snout of Lystrosaurus Sandra C. Jasinoski, Michael A. Cluver, Anusuya Chinsamy, and B. Daya Reddy 9. Pathological Features in Upper Permian and Middle Triassic Dicynodonts (Synapsida, Therapsida) Cristina Silveira Vega and Michael W. Maisch Part III. Theriodontia 10. Introduction Christian F. Kammerer 11. A Redescription of Eriphostoma microdon Broom, 1911 (Therapsida, Gorgonopsia) from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of South Africa and a Review of Middle Permian Gorgonopsians Christian F. Kammerer 12. Re-assessment of the Taxonomic Position of the Specimen GPIT/RE/7113 ( Sauroctonus parringtoni comb. nov., Gorgonopsia) Eva V. I. Gebauer 13. New Material of Microgomphodon oligocynus (Eutherapsida, Therocephalia) and the Taxonomy of Southern African Bauriidae Fernando Abdala, Tea Jashashvili, Bruce S. Rubidge, and Juri van den Heever 14. The Traversodontid Cynodont Mandagomphodon hirschsoni from the Middle Triassic of the Ruhuhu Valley, Tanzania James A. Hopson 15. Phylogeny and Taxonomy of the Traversodontidae Jun Liu and Fernando Abdala Part IV. Therapsid Diversity Patterns and the End-Permian Extinction 16. Introduction Kenneth D. Angielczyk 17. Vertebrate Paleontology of Nooitgedacht 68: A Lystrosaurus maccaigi -rich Permo-Triassic Boundary Locality in South Africa Jennifer Botha-Brink, Adam K. Huttenlocker, and Sean P. Modesto 18. Fröbisch, J. Synapsid Diversity and the Rock Record in the Permian-Triassic Beaufort Group (Karoo Supergroup), South Africa Jörg Fröbisch Subject Index Taxonomic Index
language: English
title: Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida
publisher: Springer