Sentences with phrase «in cynodonts»

First, by the time Morganucodon was alive 190 million years ago, the brain was almost 50 % larger than in cynodonts, and areas that process smell, such as the olfactory bulb, were distinctly larger.

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The most primitive mammals probably appeared in the late Triassic, descending from a mammal - like suborder of theraspid reptiles known as cynodonts.

Like other non-mammalian synapsids, therocephalians are described as mammal - like reptiles, although in fact, Therocephalia is the group most closely related to the cynodonts, which gave rise to the mammals.