Matt WillemsenSaber-Toothed Predator Connects Permian Northern and Southern Hemisphere Faunas
Inostrancevia was a tiger-sized, saber-toothed gorgonopsian that lived on the supercontinent Pangea during the Permian period, approximately 252 million years ago. The new fossil discovery in South Africa suggests that Inostrancevia migrated 11,300 km across Pangea, filling a gap in a faraway ecosystem that had lost its top predators, before going extinct itself.
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/south-african-inostrancevia-11935.html #NiceDoggie #Permian #NorthernHemisphere #gorgonopsian #SouthernHemisphere #Fauna
Inostrancevia was a tiger-sized, saber-toothed gorgonopsian that lived on the supercontinent Pangea during the Permian period, approximately 252 million years ago. The new fossil discovery in South Africa suggests that Inostrancevia migrated 11,300 km across Pangea, filling a gap in a faraway ecosystem that had lost its top predators, before going extinct itself.
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/south-african-inostrancevia-11935.html #NiceDoggie #Permian #NorthernHemisphere #gorgonopsian #SouthernHemisphere #Fauna