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(a region referred to by Russian paleontologists as the Cis-Urals). Estemmenosuchids are among the most distinctive of the Permian tetrapods. The high and...

short-lived but most dominant dinocephalians. Even the earliest members, the estemmenosuchids and early brithopodids of the Russian Ocher fauna, were already a diverse...

Estemmenosuchus are from the Perm (or Cis-Urals) region of Russia. Two other estemmenosuchids, Anoplosuchus and Zopherosuchus, are now considered females of the...

Molybdopygus is an extinct genus of estemmenosuchid dinocephalians from the Middle Permian of Russia. It is known from a single pelvis. Paleontology portal...

Parabradysaurus is an extinct genus of estemmenosuchid dinocephalians. It is known from a few serrated teeth that indicate this animal was like herbivorous...

Brithopus is a nomen dubium composed both of remains of indeterminate estemmenosuchid-like tapinocephalian and indeterminate anteosaurian, so invalidating...

dubium by some researchers. Brithopus was later considered a possible estemmenosuchid, a type of herbivorous tapinocephalian therapsid. Dinosaurus and Eurosaurus...

Titanosuchus. Unlike anteosaurs and estemmenosuchids, tapinocephalians are primarily an African group. The estemmenosuchids and pareiasaurs may have occupied...

in flood deposits (once coastal bogs) containing many skeletons of estemmenosuchids, it has been suggested that this large predator was an excellent swimmer...

although it has also been suggested (Kemp, 1982, King 1988) that the estemmenosuchids are more basal. They have featured in common with pelycosaurs (Carroll...