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Therapsida [a] is a clade comprising a major group of eupelycosaurian synapsids that includes mammals and their ancestors and close relatives. Many of the traits today seen as unique to mammals had their origin within early therapsids, including limbs that were oriented more underneath the body, resulting in a more "standing" quadrupedal posture, as opposed to the lower sprawling posture of ...
Therapsids were synapsids that began to appear in the Early Permian. They had larger temporal fenestrae (openings of the sides of the skull) than the ancestral pelycosaurs . The most advanced therapsids are the cynodonts, which include mammals .
This list of therapsids is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the Therapsida excluding mammals and purely ...
Eutheriodontia is a clade of therapsids which appear during the Middle Permian and which includes therocephalians and cynodonts, this latter group including mammals and related forms.
Nonetheless, recent studies on Permian synapsid coprolites show that more basal therapsids may have had fur, [2] and at any rate fur was already present in Mammaliaformes such as Castorocauda and Megaconus. Skull of Morganucodon, a member of Mammaliaformes. Early cynodonts had numerous small foramina on their snout bones, similar to reptiles.
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Skull of E. mirabilis. Estemmenosuchus could reach a body length of more than 3 m (10 ft). [2] Its skull was long and massive, up to 65 cm (26 in) in length, [2] and possessed several sets of large horns, somewhat similar to the antlers of a moose, growing upward and outward from the sides and top of the head.