Middle Permian pareiasaurs (IMAGE)

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Middle Permian pareiasaurs

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The plant-eating pareiasaurs were preyed on by sabre-toothed gorgonopsians. Both groups died out during the end-Permian mass extinction, or "The Great Dying."

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© Xiaochong Guo

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