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When the continents came together to form a giant landmass called Pangaea, the climate became drier and animals with compact mammal-like bodies and a less sprawling posture (like the "high walk" of crocodiles today) replaced the lizard-like creatures of the early permian. In South Africa the climate was cool with patches of ice at higher altitudes. Titanosuchus and Lycaenops were gorgonopsids - mammal like predators. Lycaenops was a lightly built hunter with dog-like teath. Titanosuchus was a saber-toothed carnivore that specialized in large prey like the saber-toothed mammals of the Miocene and Pleistocene. Their prey included large plant-eating mammal-like reptiles and armored pareiasaurs. | When the continents came together to form a giant landmass called Pangaea, the climate became drier and animals with compact mammal-like bodies and a less sprawling posture (like the "high walk" of crocodiles today) replaced the lizard-like creatures of the early permian. In South Africa the climate was cool with patches of ice at higher altitudes. Titanosuchus and Lycaenops were gorgonopsids - mammal like predators. Lycaenops was a lightly built hunter with dog-like teath. Titanosuchus was a saber-toothed carnivore that specialized in large prey like the saber-toothed mammals of the Miocene and Pleistocene. Their prey included large plant-eating mammal-like reptiles and armored pareiasaurs. | ||
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Moschops - a giant plant eater | Moschops - a giant plant eater | ||
