11. The Eotitanosuchidae were large predatory therapsids of the Wordian epoch. 12. This may have been an adaptation to heavy grazing by herbivorous therapsids . 13. A full pelage likely did not evolve until the therapsid -mammal transition. 14. Therapsids are synapsids, which were at one time the dominant land animals.15. Ecology and biogeography of Triassic non-mammalian therapsids . 16. The juxtaposition of reptilian and mammalian names highlights the transitional characters of therapsids . 17. Therapsids became the dominant land animals in the Middle Permian, displacing the pelycosaurs.18. Biarmosuchians are the most basal group of therapsids . 19. This therapsid is included in the Life Before the Dinosaurs : Permian Monsters travelling exhibition 20. "' Eotitanosuchidae "'is an extinct family of biarmosuchian therapsids .