Wangwusaurus
''Wangwusaurus'' is extinct genus of probable therapsid that lived in the Late Permian in present-day China. Only species is known, ''Wangwusaurus tayuensis'', described by the paleontologist Yang Zhongjian in 1979 from seventeen teeth found in the Jiyuan formation, of which at least seven are recognized as not belonging to those of therapsids. Description One of the teeth found also has characteristics similar to those of gorgonopsians, which earned the chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian to classify him as the first member of this group to have lived outside of Russia and Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ..., places where they are officially recognized. However, three years later, in 1981, palaeontologists Denise Sigogneau-Russell and Ai-Lin Sun found ...
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Gorgonopsian
Gorgonopsia (from the Greek Gorgon, a mythological beast, and 'aspect') is an extinct clade of Saber-toothed predator, sabre-toothed therapsids from the Middle Permian, Middle to Upper Permian roughly 265 to 252 million years ago. They are characterised by a long and narrow skull, as well as elongated upper and sometimes lower canine teeth and incisors which were likely used as slashing and stabbing weapons. Postcanine teeth are generally reduced or absent. For hunting large prey, they possibly used a bite-and-retreat tactic, ambushing and taking a debilitating bite out of the target, and following it at a safe distance before its injuries exhausted it, whereupon the gorgonopsian would grapple the animal and deliver a killing bite. They would have had