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synapsid::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | synapsid reptile |
| Type of | reptilian, reptile |
| Has types | ictodosaur, pelycosaur, protomammal, dimetrodon, therapsid, edaphosaurus |
Examples of synapsid
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By the mid-Triassic, there were many synapsid species that looked like mammals.
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The pelycosaurs, the first major group of synapsid animals, dominate the land.
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Why are we interested in looking for synapsid fossils in the Pedra de Fogo Formation?
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So any synapsid fossils we find during the course of our fieldwork could prove important.
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The synapsid pelycosaurs included the largest land vertebrate of the Early Permian, Cotylorhynchus.
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The sauropsids would evolve into modern-day reptiles and birds, while the synapsid branch led to mammals.
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The largest carnivorous synapsid was Anteosaurus from what is now South Africa during Middle Permian era.
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All synapsid fossils known from this time have been found in the narrow belt near the equator that is highlighted in yellow.
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Christian has experience studying broad evolutionary patterns in synapsids and has done detailed work on several synapsid subgroups.
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- Extinct reptile having a single pair of lateral temporal openings in the skull
- (synapsida) extinct reptiles of the Permian to Jurassic considered ancestral to mammals
- Synapsids ('fused arch') are a group of animals that includes mammals and everything more closely related to mammals than to other living amniotes. ...
- Member of an amniote clade distinguished by a single hole on each side of the skull, including the mammals.
- A group of reptiles including the pelycosaurs and therapsids out of which the mammals emerged.
- One of the two major amniote lineages that diverged during the Carboniferous period (360-300 million years ago), the other being the diapsids. Synapsids are ultimately ancestral to the mammals, which first appeared in the late Triassic.
- The group synapsid contains all the animals that have ever had the synapsid skull, this includes the therapsids ( the reptilian ancestors of mammals) and the mammals ( see mammal like reptiles). ...
