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Late Permian animals (Time series) - Wildlife in the Fossil sites

Classified animal and plant picture guide. Clicking the Organism name shows the images, and pointing the Organism name shows the tooltip with three links at the left-top corner.
The Late Permian in Paleozoic spanned from 260 to 251 millon years ago. The explanation in brackets is the ages they lived in extinct species. Note that Mya is million years ago. For example, "48.6~40.4 Mya" shows a range between 48.6 and 40.4 million years ago. The italic and bold figures, e.g. 488, show out of the range. The time range is shown in the Geological Time Table. The followings are a part of the Evolutionary Tree.
Permian, Early Permian, Middle Permian, Late Permian
The right map is the continents at Late Permian provided by C. R. Scotese PALEOMAP Project.
260.5 Mya
260.5~255 MyaShrimpErymastacus  
260.5~253.8 MyaMammal-like reptileCistecephalus  , Oudenodon  , Australobarbarus  , Parathrinaxodon
Marine reptileYounginia
Primitive turtleArganaceras  
260.5~251 MyaMammal-like reptileSauroctonus  , Eoarctops  , Dvinia  
Primitive turtleElginia  
Primitive amphibiaRhinesuchus  , Laccocephalus
Ancestor of reptileKotlassia  
BeetlePermosyne
First lacewing fossil
LacewingPermorapisma
AmmoniteAraxoceras  
260.5~245 MyaPrimitive turtleOwenetta   (Great Dying③)
260.5~99.6 MyaConiferPagiophyllum   (Great Dying③④)
260.5~0 MyaSnail(Chemnitzia)   (Great Dying③④⑤)
258 Mya
258 MyaMammal-like reptileLycaenops   (Mammal's features to walk)
258~253.8 MyaMammal-like reptileDiictodon  
258~251 MyaPrimitive turtleScutosaurus  
Primitive reptileProtorosaurus  
Small reptileCoelurosauravus   (Winged glider)
ArchosaursArchosaurus  
Ancestor of reptileUralerpeton  , Bystrowiana  , Karpinskiosaurus  
SharkWodnika  
AmmoniteCyclolobus
258~216.5 MyaMammal-like reptileDicynodon   (Great Dying③)
258~164.7 MyaRay-finned fishSaurichthys   (Great Dying③④)
255 Mya
255 MyaMammal-like reptileBiarmosuchus  , Eotitanosuchus  , Moschops  , Keratocephalus  , Titanosuchus  , Procynosuchus  
Ancestor of reptileChroniosuchus  
255~251 MyaMammal-like reptilePhthinosuchus  
255~250 MyaMammal-like reptileGorgonops  
255~245 MyaMammal-like reptileThrinaxodon   (Great Dying③)
255~241 MyaMammal-like reptileLystrosaurus   (Great Dying③)
254 Mya
254~251 MyaMarine reptileThadeosaurus  
253.8 Mya
253.8~251 MyaPrimitive reptileMilleretta  , Millerosaurus  
Primitive amphibiaNigerpeton  
ThripLophioneura
True bugMitchelloneura
253.8~0 MyaSnail(Phasianella)   (Great Dying③④⑤)
Bivalve(Isognomon)   (Great Dying③④⑤)
Sea star(Ophioderma)   (Great Dying③④⑤)
253 Mya
253 MyaMammal-like reptileBurnetia  
251 Mya
251 MyaThird event of Major extinction (Great Dying③)