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Lycaenops
''Lycaenops'' ("Wolf-Face") is a genus of carnivorous therapsid (mammal-like reptile). It lived during the late mid-Permian to the early Late Permian, about 270.6-251 mya, in what is now South Africa.
==Description==
''Lycaenops'' measured about and weighed up to .〔(Gorgonopsia )〕 Like the modern-day wolves from which it takes its name, ''Lycaenops'' had a long and slender skull, with a set of dog-like fangs set into both its upper and lower jaws. These pointed canine teeth were ideal for the use of stabbing and/or tearing at the flesh of any large prey that it came upon. ''Lycaenops'' most likely hunted small vertebrates such as reptiles and dicynodonts.
''Lycaenops'' walked and ran with its long legs held close to its body. This is a feature found in mammals, but not in more primitive amniotes, early reptiles, and synapsids such as pelycosaurs, whose legs are positioned to the sides of their bodies. The ability to move like a mammal would have given ''Lycaenops'' an advantage over other land vertebrates, since it would have been able to outrun them.
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