The term "synapsid" is increasingly used cladistically, including mammals -- thus, synapsids are not extinct at all. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: The Synapsid Gallery] Reference
I was under the impression that “therapsid” always referred to a kind of synapsid reptile and was distinct from “pelycosaur” another kind of synapsid think dimetrodon. From Wordnik.com. [Controversies in Evolution: 'Jurassic beaver' unearthed in China - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Big canines are a consistent theme in synapsid evolution. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: The Long Road to Failure] Reference
The one and only specimen represents a sphenacodontid synapsid. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
"Non-mammalian synapsid" is a nice, precise, accurate term, too. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: The Synapsid Gallery] Reference
I've always liked "non-mammalian synapsid," even though it takes awhile to say. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: The Synapsid Gallery] Reference
Also Coty is an earlier synapsid so i presumed less mammal like than the later ones. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: The Synapsid Gallery] Reference
I guess this lets me "improve" my hideous Alt-Permian picture, and maybe draw up a real Permian synapsid, too. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: A Minor Delay] Reference
Their fossil representatives have synapsid skulls, they have 3 ossicles and the jaw is formed from one bone the dentary. From Wordnik.com. [Dead-on Analysis from Red State Rabble - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
At least I have a start on the model, but to be honest the piece won't and sadly at this point can't be as complicated as my synapsid one. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: Making of Karoo Sunset] Reference
Edit cynodonts are called “mammal like reptiles” because they have synapsid skull structure but still have a reptile mandible and a middle ear containing a stapes only. From Wordnik.com. [Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The literature regarding mammalian paleontology is vast, see Cifelli, J Paleontol 75, 1214-1226, 2001 for a review, or talkorigins specifically for the synapsid to mammal transition. From Wordnik.com. [Of Form over Substance: a review of Sermonti - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Trust me, if you don't want to read it all—it's cool stuff, and one of the interesting points they make is that they've traced the fate of a particular bone not found in us mammals, but common in our pre-synapsid ancestors, the cleithrum. From Wordnik.com. [Scientists...in disagreement! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Otherwise, we have more of the lumbering and vaguely stegosaur-like "stegodons" seen elsewhere in Azeroth and a bizarre mutation of basilisk that they're calling "Diemetradon" (clearly loosely inspired by the Permian-aged Dimetrodon, which, you'll note, isn't a dinosaur, but, rather, a pelycosaurian synapsid). From Wordnik.com. [Howard Hughes Looks the Other Way] Reference
Good thing for us one of them was a synapsid then. From Wordnik.com. [Combined feed generated from RSS2.com] Reference
An artist's impression; feeding on a small synapsid. From Wordnik.com. [RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds] Reference
Suminia getmanovi, and it was a synapsid that lived during the Permian in what is now Russia. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Any mammal-like synapsid survivors "were teeny liittle things hiding in cracks" said Dr Farmer. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference
During the time the little synapsid was skittering through the trees the local environment supported a large number of herbivores. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
There is also a relict tritylodontid synapsid 'a group thought to have become extinct at the end of the Middle Jurassic 'now found in the Early Cretaceous of Japan. From Wordnik.com. [Uncommon Descent] Reference
The Hall of Primitive Mammals traces the lower branches of the evolutionary tree of mammals, including such features as the synapsid opening in the skull (a large hole behind the eye socket for muscles that extend to the jaw, found also in early relatives of mammals), the three middle ear bones (used to classify all mammals), and the placenta. From Wordnik.com. [NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art] Reference
10:25 I have sooo many issues with accessioning synapsid specimens in the 'reptile' book. From Wordnik.com. [Brat Twitters] Reference
Now, if Chronoperates did possess a Meckel’s cartilage, this would be a first for a post-Mesozoic synapsid, and would further support ideas that Chronoperates is actually a late-surviving basal mammal. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
Yeah gorgonopsids, not to mention every none fin backed synapsid, are virtually none existiant in cyberspace... i think the ART Evolved gallery will end up the largest collection of pictures of them outside wikipedia there are some very talented capable synapsid artists there. From Wordnik.com. [Lycaenops: Part Two] Reference
I think i’ve got this now: basal anapsid reptiles (which presumably gave rise to synapsid and sauropsid lineages) died out leaving no descendants. turtles, full diapsid reptiles closely allied to crocodiles, secondarily developed a seemingly (but not osteogenically identical) anapsid skull structure subsequently. From Wordnik.com. [Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Four - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The last non-mammalian synapsid?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
From then until the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, any land animal longer than about 3 feet was an archosaur, says Farmer, while mammal-like synapsid survivors "were teeny little things hiding in cracks. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
From then until the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, any land animal longer than about three feet was an archosaur, says Farmer, while mammal-like synapsid survivors "were teeny little things hiding in cracks. From Wordnik.com. [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference
I'm a synapsid!. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: The Synapsid Gallery] Reference
If you mean Thrinaxodon, it is a synapsid. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: Synapsids in Art] Reference
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