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Caseidae

Index Caseidae

Caseidae is an extinct family of synapsids from the Carboniferous and Permian period. [1]

37 relations: Alfred Romer, Alierasaurus, Angelosaurus, Aquatic animal, Callibrachion, Carboniferous, Casea, Caseoides, Caseopsis, Cervical vertebrae, Cotylorhynchus, Datheosaurus, Edaphosaurus, Ennatosaurus, Eocasea, Eothyrididae, Euromycter, Evolution of mammals, Family (biology), Herbivore, Infratemporal fenestra, Llewellyn Ivor Price, Mammal, Nostril, Oromycter, Parietal eye, Pelycosaur, Pennsylvanian (geology), Permian, Phreatophasma, Robert R. Reisz, Ruthenosaurus, Samuel Wendell Williston, Skull, Synapsid, Thoracic diaphragm, Trichasaurus.

Alfred Romer

Alfred Sherwood Romer (December 28, 1894 – November 5, 1973) was an American paleontologist and biologist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution.

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Alierasaurus

Alierasaurus is an extinct genus of caseid synapsid that lived during the Permian in what is now Sardinia.

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Angelosaurus

Angelosaurus dolani ('Dolan's Angel lizard', Olson & Berrbower 1953) was a pelycosaur (an extinct clade) of reptile.

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Aquatic animal

A aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in the water for most or all of its lifetime.

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Callibrachion

Callibrachion is an extinct genus of caseasaur.

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Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, Mya.

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Casea

Casea is an extinct genus of pelycosaur synapsids which was about long from Texas, United States and Aveyron, France.

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Caseoides

Caseoides is an extinct genus of large pelycosaur synapsids that lived in the Kungurian Age (late Early Permian epoch).

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Caseopsis

Caseopsis is an extinct genus of large pelycosaurs that was about long.

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Cervical vertebrae

In vertebrates, cervical vertebrae (singular: vertebra) are the vertebrae of the neck, immediately below the skull.

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Cotylorhynchus

Cotylorhynchus is an extinct genus of very large synapsids that lived in the southern part of what is now North America during the Early Permian period.

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Datheosaurus

Datheosaurus is an extinct genus of caseasaur.

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Edaphosaurus

Edaphosaurus (meaning "pavement lizard" for dense clusters of teeth) is a genus of extinct edaphosaurid synapsid that lived around 300 to 280 million years ago, during the late Carboniferous to early Permian periods.

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Ennatosaurus

Ennatosaurus (meaning "the 9th reptile") was a synapsid that lived in European Russia during the Wordian stage of the Permian period.

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Eocasea

Eocasea is an extinct genus of caseid synapsids from the Late Pennsylvanian of Kansas.

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Eothyrididae

Eothyrididae is an extinct family of very primitive, insectivorous synapsids.

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Euromycter

Euromycter is an extinct genus of large caseid synapsids from middle Early to early Late Permian (upper Sakmarian to lower Lopingian) deposits of Southern France.

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Evolution of mammals

The evolution of mammals has passed through many stages since the first appearance of their synapsid ancestors in the late Carboniferous period.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet.

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Infratemporal fenestra

An infratemporal fenestra, also called the lateral temporal fenestra is an opening in the skull behind the orbit in some animals.

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Llewellyn Ivor Price

Llewellyn Ivor Price (October 9, 1905, Santa Maria – 1980, Rio Grande do Sul) was one of the first Brazilian paleontologists.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Nostril

A nostril (or naris, plural nares) is one of the two channels of the nose, from the point where they bifurcate to the external opening.

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Oromycter

Oromycter is an extinct genus of caseid synapsids from the Early Permian of Oklahoma.

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Parietal eye

A parietal eye, also known as a third eye or pineal eye, is a part of the epithalamus present in some animal species.

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Pelycosaur

The pelycosaurs (from Greek πέλυξ pelyx 'wooden bowl' or 'axe' and σαῦρος sauros 'lizard') are an informal grouping (previously considered an order) composed of basal or primitive Late Paleozoic synapsids, sometimes erroneously referred to as "mammal-like reptiles".

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Pennsylvanian (geology)

The Pennsylvanian (also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two subperiods (or upper of two subsystems) of the Carboniferous Period.

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Permian

The Permian is a geologic period and system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic period 251.902 Mya.

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Phreatophasma

Phreatophasma is an extinct genus of synapsids from the Middle Permian of European Russia.

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Robert R. Reisz

Robert Rafael Reisz is a Canadian paleontologist and specialist in the study of early amniote and tetrapod evolution.

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Ruthenosaurus

Ruthenosaurus is an extinct genus of large caseid synapsids from middle Early to early Late Permian (upper Sakmarian to lower Lopingian) deposits of Southern France.

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Samuel Wendell Williston

Samuel Wendell Williston (July 10, 1851 – August 30, 1918) was an American educator and paleontologist who was the first to propose that birds developed flight cursorially (by running), rather than arboreally (by leaping from tree to tree).

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Skull

The skull is a bony structure that forms the head in vertebrates.

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Synapsid

Synapsids (Greek, 'fused arch'), synonymous with theropsids (Greek, 'beast-face'), are a group of animals that includes mammals and every animal more closely related to mammals than to other living amniotes.

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Thoracic diaphragm

For other uses, see Diaphragm (disambiguation). The thoracic diaphragm, or simply the diaphragm (partition), is a sheet of internal skeletal muscle in humans and other mammals that extends across the bottom of the thoracic cavity.

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Trichasaurus

Trichasaurus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caseidae

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