Editing Permian (section)

====Tetrapods====
[[File:Weigeltisaurus reconstruction.png|left|thumb|Restoration of ''[[Weigeltisaurus jaekeli]]'', a [[Weigeltisauridae|weigeltisaurid]] from the Late Permian of Europe. Weigeltisaurids represent the oldest known gliding vertebrates.]]
The terrestrial fossil record of the Permian is patchy and temporally discontinuous. Early Permian records are dominated by equatorial Europe and North America, while those of the Middle and Late Permian are dominated by temperate [[Karoo Supergroup]] sediments of South Africa and the Ural region of European Russia.<ref name="Brocklehurst-2020">{{Cite journal |last=Brocklehurst |first=Neil |date=2020-06-10 |title=Olson's Gap or Olson's Extinction? A Bayesian tip-dating approach to resolving stratigraphic uncertainty |journal=[[Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences]] |language=en |volume=287 |issue=1928 |pages=20200154 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2020.0154 |issn=0962-8452 |pmc=7341920 |pmid=32517621}}</ref> Early Permian terrestrial faunas of North America and Europe were dominated by primitive [[pelycosaur]] [[synapsid]]s including the herbivorous [[Edaphosauridae|edaphosaurids]], and carnivorous [[Sphenacodontidae|sphenacodontids]], [[Diadectidae|diadectids]] and [[amphibian]]s.<ref name="Huttenlocker, A. K. 2012. Pp. 90">Huttenlocker, A. K., and E. Rega. 2012. The Paleobiology and Bone Microstructure of Pelycosaurian-grade Synapsids. Pp. 90–119 in A. Chinsamy (ed.) Forerunners of Mammals: Radiation, Histology, Biology. Indiana University Press.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/napc/abs23.html#SumidaS|title=NAPC Abstracts, Sto - Tw|work=berkeley.edu|access-date=2014-03-31|archive-date=2020-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226163702/https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/napc/abs23.html#SumidaS|url-status=live}}</ref> Early Permian reptiles, such as [[Acleistorhinidae|acleistorhinids]], were mostly small insectivores.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Modesto |first1=Sean P. |last2=Scott |first2=Diane M. |last3=Reisz |first3=Robert R. |date=1 July 2009 |title=Arthropod remains in the oral cavities of fossil reptiles support inference of early insectivory |journal=[[Biology Letters]] |volume=5 |issue=6 |pages=838–840 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2009.0326 |pmid=19570779 |pmc=2827974 }}</ref>