Sentences with phrase «like synapsid»

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Mammals don't have this ring, but it was present in the mammal - like reptiles or «synapsids» they evolved from.

In fact many nocturnal synapsids were top predators, like Dimetrodon, a 4.5 - metre beast with a prominent fin on its back.

Dimetrodon was a synapsid, sometimes called a proto - mammal or a mammal - like reptile.

There is a vast diversity of additional groups of fossil vertebrates, including: (1) crocodilians and their extinct pseudosuchian kin; (2) marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, placodonts, and the like; (3) lepidosaurs (snakes, lizards, mosasaurs, tuataras, and their extinct relatives); (4) other fossil reptiles; (5) the extinct synapsid ancestors and relatives of mammals; and (6) amphibian - grade animals such as lepospondyls, temnospondyls, and seymouriamorphs (Benton 2014).

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 mammLike 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 mammlike reptiles, although in fact, Therocephalia is the group most closely related to the cynodonts, which gave rise to the mammals.