Bradysaurus
Sign in to saveBradysaurus is a genus of large, primitive and widespread pareiasaur. They possessed a covering of armoured scutes, likely serving as defense against their main predators, the gorgonopsians.
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- 260000000-
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- 265000000-
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- Bradysaurus
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- taxon common name
- 緩龍
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Bradysaurus is a genus of large, primitive and widespread pareiasaur. They possessed a covering of armoured scutes, likely serving as defense against their main predators, the gorgonopsians.
Fossils of Bradysaurus are known from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone (Capitanian age) of the South African Karoo. Along with the similarly large dinocephalia, the bradysaurs constituted the herbivorous megafauna of the late Middle Permian Period.
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