Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida

Chapter 1 “Pelycosaur”-Grade Synapsids: Introduction

Chapter 2 New Information on the Basal Pelycosaurian-Grade Synapsid Oedaleops

Chapter 3 Was Ophiacodon (Synapsida, Eupelycosauria) a Swimmer? A Test Using Vertebral Dimensions

Chapter 4 Postcranial Description and Reconstruction of the Varanodontine Varanopid Aerosaurus wellesi (Synapsida: Eupelycosauria)

Chapter 5 First European Record of a Varanodontine (Synapsida: Varanopidae): Member of a Unique Early Permian Upland Paleoecosystem, Tambach Basin, Central Germany

Chapter 6 Anomodontia: Introduction

Chapter 7 Permian and Triassic Dicynodont (Therapsida: Anomodontia) Faunas of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia: Taxonomic Update and Implications for Dicynodont Biogeography and Biostratigraphy

Chapter 8 Anatomical Plasticity in the Snout of Lystrosaurus

Chapter 9 Pathological Features in Upper Permian and Middle Triassic Dicynodonts (Synapsida, Therapsida)

Chapter 10 Theriodontia: Introduction

Chapter 11 A Redescription of Eriphostoma microdon Broom, 1911 (Therapsida, Gorgonopsia) from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of South Africa and a Review of Middle Permian Gorgonopsians

Chapter 12 Re-assessment of the Taxonomic Position of the Specimen GPIT/RE/7113 (Sauroctonus parringtoni comb. nov., Gorgonopsia)

Chapter 13 New Material of Microgomphodon oligocynus (Eutherapsida, Therocephalia) and the Taxonomy of Southern African Bauriidae

Chapter 14 The Traversodontid Cynodont Mandagomphodon hirschsoni from the Middle Triassic of the Ruhuhu Valley, Tanzania

Chapter 15 Phylogeny and Taxonomy of the Traversodontidae

Chapter 16 Introduction

Chapter 17 Vertebrate Paleontology of Nooitgedacht 68: A Lystrosaurus maccaigi-Rich Permo-Triassic Boundary Locality in South Africa

Chapter 18 Synapsid Diversity and the Rock Record in the Permian-Triassic Beaufort Group (Karoo Supergroup), South Africa