About Pampaphoneus biccai:
- It belongs to the early therapsid clade called Dinocephalians.
- It lived just before the largest extinction event in the history of Earth. That event eliminated 86 percent of all animal species across the globe.
- Before the extinction event, dinocephalians were one of the major groups of large terrestrial animals that thrived on land.
- They were medium to large-sized creatures with both carnivorous and herbivorous representatives.
- They had thick cranial bones, which led to the group's name, which translates to "terrible head" in Greek.
- These animals are rare in other parts of the world but well-known in South Africa and Russia.
- It is the only known species in Brazil.
