page_title: Gorgonops
section_title: Classification
hierarchical_section_title: Gorgonops / Classification
caption_attribution_description: English: Gorgonops whaitsi, Late Permian of South Africa. digital.
context_page_description: Gorgonops 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.
context_section_description: Below is a cladogram from the phylogenetic analysis of Gebauer (2007):
caption: Restoration of G. whaitsi
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