- (basal amniotes) from
which non-mammalian
synapsids evolved were
traditionally called "reptiles". Therefore,
synapsids were
described as mammal-like reptiles...
- PEL-ih-kə-sor) is an
older term for
basal or
primitive Late
Paleozoic synapsids,
excluding the
therapsids and
their descendants. Previously, the term...
- representatives.
Although early synapsids have
historically been
referred to as "mammal-like reptiles", all
synapsids are more
closely related to mammals...
-
These lists of
synapsids collectively include every genus that has ever been
included in the
clade Synapsida- the
mammals and
their evolutionary precursors...
- has been questioned,
since it
implies synapsids were
necessarily less
advantaged in
water retention, that
synapsid decline coincides with
climate changes...
-
Kammerer et al. (2011):
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- sphenacodontids,
which helps to
distinguish them from
other early synapsids. As in many
other early synapsids, the
teeth of most
Dimetrodon species are
serrated at...
-
infratemporal fenestra, as displa**** most
clearly by
early synapsids. In
later synapsids, the cynodonts, the
orbit fused with the
fenestral opening after...
-
their origin in the Carboniferous; the
synapsids,
which was the
dominant group, and the sauropsids. The
synapsids continued to
prosper and
increase in number...
-
Therapsida is a
clade comprising a
major group of
eupelycosaurian synapsids that
includes mammals and
their ancestors and
close relatives. Many of the...
