出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/05/24 22:08 UTC 版)
Moschops (meaning calf face) is an extinct genus of therapsid that lived in the Middle Permian, around 255 million years ago. Therapsids were proto-mammals (non-mammal synapsids), which were the dominant land animals. Five meters long, Moschops was the largest land animal of its time, a herbivore preyed on by other therapsids. Its remains were found in the Karoo region of South Africa.