Permian period

See photos and illustrations of the plants and animals of the Permian period from National Geographic.

Permian animals. Computer artwork of bear-sized predatory Inostrancevia sp. gorgonopsians attacking the herbivorous reptile Scutosaurus during the Permian period (around 300-250 million years ago) in what is now Russia.

Permian of Russia In this somewhat dry setting near a lake, there is a group of Araucaria trees and in the middle distance some proto-gymnosperm trees (noeggerathialian). There are also some cycads and equisetums. A pair of Dimedrodons (Synapsids) bask in the sun. In the extreme foreground resting on the growing tip of a horsetail (equisetum) is a caloneurodean (Paleuthygramma tenuicornis, Paleuthygrammatidae) (these grew to 24mm). Below left, resting on a rock there is a small arachnid of…

Scene from Permian period, when climate turned cool and dry and allowed for Gymnosperms to become dominant.

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Permian period

The Permian* was a time of specialization for marine fauna, with major diversifications of ammonoids, brachiopods and bryozoans. A slab exhibiting some of the richness of this fauna is on display. Insects, amphibians, and therapsids (the precursors of mammals) flourished during this time. Reptiles began to flourish in water and on land. During the middle of the Permian there

Arthropleura (Carboniferous 345–295 Ma), Life Restoration by Corbin Rainbolt

Permian Period, Life comes to the Land, Dimetrodon grandis

Ilinskoe Faunal Assemblage - next to Kotelnich, circa 252 mya Ilinskoe Faunal Assemblage