1999 Walking with... 03 Clash of Titans

The Gorgonops and the Rhinesuchus are only known from South Africa, yet in Clash of Titans, they are portrayed living with Scutosaurus, which was only found in Siberia. However, the gorgonopsid featured in the program was more likely an Inostrancevia, as it lived at the same time and place as Scutosaurus. Meanwhile, Rhinesuchus is also from South Africa. Although it is named, in the episode, as a labyrinthodont, a rather wide nomination that has been traditionally used to describe the more primitive amphibian or amphibian-like tetrapodomorphs that existed back then, including ichthyostegalians, temnospondyls, etc. The term labyrinthodont has since been disused, as it is ultimately nearly synonymous with the Stegocephalia clade as a whole, and conveniently removes amniotes, lissamphibians, and lepospondyls out of its definition. A more accurate replacement for it could be Konzhukovia, which lived in Russia at the same time the first part of the episode was set in and was a labyrinthodont just like Rhinesuchus. It is possible that gorgonopsids had hair. However, correlations with the MSX2, a gene that is believed to be correlated with the manifestation of the parietal foramen and the distribution of hair in mammals, has been used to determine which extinct synapsids might have been covered in hair. According to studies done in regards to the manifestation of this gene, the mutations that activate the formation of parietal foramen, may be accompanied by the loss of extensive...