- Henrici, A. C.; Sues, H.-D.; Pierce, S. E. (2023). "A new
Carboniferous edaphosaurid and the
origin of
herbivory in
mammal forerunners".
Scientific Reports...
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examined the
microscopic bone
structure of the tall
neural spines in
edaphosaurids has
raised doubts about a
thermoregulatory role for the sail and suggests...
- progressed. The
edaphosaurids,
along with the caseids, were the
dominant herbivores in the
early part of the Permian. The most
renowned edaphosaurid is Edaphosaurus...
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evolved a tall sail,
consisting of
elongated vertebral spines: the
edaphosaurids and the sphenacodontids. In life, this may have been
covered by skin...
- have a
transitional morphology between earlier edaphosaurids and Edaphosaurus.
Unlike earlier edaphosaurids, the
neural spines are
thicker and laterally...
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dominated by
primitive pelycosaur synapsids including the
herbivorous edaphosaurids, and
carnivorous sphenacodontids,
diadectids and amphibians.
Early Permian...
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Edaphosaurids Edaphosaurus Sphenacodontians ...
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Ianthasaurus is an
extinct genus of
small edaphosaurids from the Late Carboniferous. It is one of the
smallest edaphosaurids known, with an 8 cm (3.1 in) skull...
- of this sail, like that of the
contemporaneous sphenacodontids and
edaphosaurids,
remains enigmatic, but it is
thought to have
stiffened the vertebral...
- of at
least 6 m (20 ft) and more than 500 kg (1,100 lb). The
largest edaphosaurids were
Lupeosaurus at 3 m (9.8 ft) long and Edaphosaurus,
which could...
