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Inostrancevia
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Inostrancevia

Inostrancevia alexandri

Era: PermianDiet: CarnivorousPeriod: Late PermianSize: 3.2m

Inostrancevia is an extinct genus of large carnivorous therapsids which lived during the Late Permian in what is now European Russia and Southern Africa. The first-known fossils of this gorgonopsian were discovered in the context of a long series of excavations carried out from 1899 to 1914 in the Northern Dvina, Russia