Gorgonops

Gorgonops is a carnivorous synapsid that lived between 255 and 250 million years ago during the Permian Period in South Africa. It preyed upon animals such as Scutosaurus and Estemmenosuchus and reigned as the apex predator until the Permian Mass Extinction event that wiped out it and the animals it hunted. It was discovered in 1876 by renowned British scientist and paleontologist Richard Owen.