Gorgonops
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| Gorgonops Temporal range: Late Permian |
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| Head of G. torvus. | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Gorgonopsia |
| Family: | †Gorgonopsidae |
| Genus: | †Gorgonops Owen, 1876 |
Gorgonops (literally "Gorgon' face") is the name given to an extinct genus of therapsid which lived about 255-250 million years ago, during the latest part of the Permian period. It was a typical representative of the Gorgonopsia, the dominant predators of their day, which in the largest forms grew to over four meters long.
