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Therapsid

Index Therapsid

Therapsida is a group of synapsids that includes mammals and their ancestors. [1]

134 relations: Akidnognathidae, Angiogenesis, Anomodont, Anteosaur, Anteosauridae, Archosauromorpha, Axis (anatomy), Bauria, Bauriidae, Baurioidea, Biarmosuchia, Biarmosuchus, Brithopodidae, Canine tooth, Carnian, Caseasauria, Castorocauda, Chiniquodontidae, Cistecephalidae, Clade, Coprolite, Cretaceous, Crown group, Cynodont, Cynognathia, Cynognathus, Dendrochronology, Deuterosaurus, Diademodontidae, Diapsid, Dicynodon, Dicynodont, Diictodontia, Dinocephalia, Docodonta, Dromasauria, Dvinia, Early Cretaceous, Early Jurassic, Early Triassic, Emydopidae, Emydopoidea, Endotherm, Endothiodontia, Eodicynodon, Eotitanosuchidae, Eotitanosuchus, Epicynodontia, Estemmenosuchidae, Eucynodontia, ..., Eutheriodontia, Eutherocephalia, Evolution, Evolution of mammals, Galeops, Galesauridae, Galesaurus, Gondwana, Gorgonopsia, Hair, Haramiyida, Herbivore, Hofmeyriidae, Holocene, Incisor, Infratemporal fenestra, Inostrancevia, Jurassic, Kannemeyeria, Kannemeyeriiformes, Kingoriidae, Late Triassic, Lazarus taxon, Lizard, Lycaenops, Lycosuchidae, Lystrosauridae, Mammal, Mammaliaformes, Middle Triassic, Molar (tooth), Morganucodon, Morphology (biology), Nasal concha, Neotherapsida, Otsheridae, Pangaea, Paraphyly, Pelycosaur, Permian, Permian–Triassic extinction event, Phthinosuchus, Platycraniellus, Postcrania, Pristerodontia, Probainognathia, Probainognathidae, Procynosuchidae, Pylaecephalidae, Reptile, Robert Broom, Robert L. Carroll, Scylacosauria, Scylacosaurus, Sinophoneus, Skull, Sphenacodontia, Sphenacodontidae, Stahleckeriidae, Styracocephalus, Synapsid, Syodontinae, Tapinocephalia, Tapinocephalidae, Temnospondyli, Tetraceratops, Theriodont, Therocephalia, Thrinaxodon, Thrinaxodontidae, Timeline of the evolutionary history of life, Titanosuchidae, Tooth, Traversodontidae, Triassic, Triassic–Jurassic extinction event, Trirachodontidae, Tritheledontidae, Tritylodontidae, Venjukovia, Venyukoviamorpha, Vertebrate paleontology, Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, Whaitsiidae. Expand index (84 more) »

Akidnognathidae

Akidnognathidae is an extinct family of therocephalian therapsids from the Late Permian and Early Triassic of South Africa and Russia.

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Angiogenesis

Angiogenesis is the physiological process through which new blood vessels form from pre-existing vessels.

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Anomodont

Anomodontia is an extinct group of non-mammalian therapsids containing many species from the Permian and Triassic periods (possibly continuing into the Early Cretaceous), most of which were toothless, possibly endothermic herbivores.

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Anteosaur

Anteosaurs are a group of large, primitive carnivorous dinocephalian therapsids with large canines and incisors and short limbs, that are known from the Middle Permian of South Africa, Russia, China, and Brazil.

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Anteosauridae

Anteosauridae is an extinct family of large carnivorous dinocephalian therapsids that are known from the Middle Permian of Asia, Africa, and South America.These animals were by far the largest predators of the Permian period, with skulls reaching 80 cm in length in adult individuals, far larger than the biggest gorgonopsian.

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Archosauromorpha

Archosauromorpha (Greek for "ruling lizard forms") is a clade (or infraclass) of diapsid reptiles that first appeared during the middle Permian and became more common during the Triassic.

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Axis (anatomy)

In anatomy, the second cervical vertebra (C2) of the spine is named the axis (from Latin axis, "axle") or epistropheus.

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Bauria

Bauria is an extinct genus of the suborder Therocephalia that existed during the Early Triassic period, around 246-251 million years ago.

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Bauriidae

Bauriidae is an extinct family of therocephalian therapsids.

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Baurioidea

Baurioidea is a superfamily of therocephalian therapsids.

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Biarmosuchia

Biarmosuchia is a group of Permian therapsids.

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Biarmosuchus

Biarmosuchus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsids that lived around 267 mya during the Middle Permian period.

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Brithopodidae

Brithopodidae is an extinct family of carnivorous dinocephalian therapsids that are known from the Middle Permian of Russia and Texas.

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Canine tooth

In mammalian oral anatomy, the canine teeth, also called cuspids, dog teeth, fangs, or (in the case of those of the upper jaw) eye teeth, are relatively long, pointed teeth.

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Carnian

The Carnian (less commonly, Karnian) is the lowermost stage of the Upper Triassic series (or earliest age of the Late Triassic epoch).

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Caseasauria

Caseasauria is one of the two main clades of early synapsids, the other being the Eupelycosauria.

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Castorocauda

Castorocauda is a genus of small, semi-aquatic mammal relatives living in the Jurassic period, around 164 million years ago, found in lakebed sediments of the Daohugou Beds of Inner Mongolia.

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Chiniquodontidae

Chiniquodontidae is an extinct family of meat-eating advanced mammal-like reptiles (therapsids) that lived during the Upper Triassic of South America and perhaps Europe.

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Cistecephalidae

Cistecephalidae is an extinct family of dicynodont therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa, India and Zambia.

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Clade

A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".

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Coprolite

A coprolite is fossilized feces.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Crown group

In phylogenetics, the crown group of a collection of species consists of the living representatives of the collection together with their ancestors back to their most recent common ancestor as well as all of that ancestor's descendants.

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Cynodont

The cynodonts ("dog teeth") (clade Cynodontia) are therapsids that first appeared in the Late Permian (approximately 260 Ma).

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Cynognathia

Cynognathia ("dog jaw") is one of two major clades of cynodonts, the other being Probainognathia.

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Cynognathus

Cynognathus is an extinct genus of large-bodied cynodont therapsids that lived in the Middle Triassic.

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Dendrochronology

Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in order to analyze atmospheric conditions during different periods in history.

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Deuterosaurus

Deuterosaurus is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsids, one of the non-mammalian synapsids dominating the land during the late Palaeozoic.

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Diademodontidae

Diademodontidae is an extinct family of Triassic gomphodonts.

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Diapsid

Diapsids ("two arches") are a group of amniote tetrapods that developed two holes (temporal fenestra) in each side of their skulls about 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period.

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Dicynodon

Dicynodon ("Two dog-teeth") is a type of dicynodont therapsid that flourished during the Upper Permian period.

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Dicynodont

Dicynodontia is a taxon of anomodont therapsids or synapsids with beginnings in the mid-Permian, which were dominant in the Late Permian and continued throughout the Triassic, with a few possibly surviving into the Early Cretaceous.

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Diictodontia

The Diictodontia were a group of herbivorous Dicynodonts from the Permian of South Africa.

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Dinocephalia

Dinocephalia is a clade of large-bodied early therapsids that flourished for a brief time in the Middle Permian between 270 and 260 million years ago (Ma), but became extinct, leaving no descendants.

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Docodonta

Docodonta is an order of extinct mammaliaforms that lived during the mid- to late-Mesozoic era.

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Dromasauria

Dromasaurs are a paraphyletic group of anomodont therapsids from the Middle Permian.

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Dvinia

Dvinia is an extinct genus of cynodonts of the family Dviniidae found in Sokolki on the Northern Dvina River near Kotlas in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.

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Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous/Middle Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.

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Early Jurassic

The Early Jurassic epoch (in chronostratigraphy corresponding to the Lower Jurassic series) is the earliest of three epochs of the Jurassic period.

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Early Triassic

The Early Triassic is the first of three epochs of the Triassic Period of the geologic timescale.

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Emydopidae

Emydopidae is a family of dicynodont therapsids.

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Emydopoidea

Emydopoidea is a group of Late Permian dicynodont therapsids.

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Endotherm

An endotherm (from Greek ἔνδον endon "within" and θέρμη thermē "heat") is an organism that maintains its body at a metabolically favorable temperature, largely by the use of heat set free by its internal bodily functions instead of relying almost purely on ambient heat.

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Endothiodontia

Endothiodontia is a clade of dicynodont therapsids that includes the family Endothiodontidae and possibly the family Eumantellidae.

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Eodicynodon

Eodicynodon (eo-, early or primitive, dicynodont) is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsids, a highly diverse group of herbivorous synapsids that were widespread during the middle-late Permian and early Triassic.

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Eotitanosuchidae

Eotitanosuchidae is an extinct family of biarmosuchian therapsids.

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Eotitanosuchus

Eotitanosuchus ("dawn giant crocodile") is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsids whose fossils were found in the town of Ochyor in Perm Krai, Russia.

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Epicynodontia

Epicynodontia is a clade of cynodont therapsids that includes most cynodonts, including galesaurids, thrinaxodontids, and Eucynodontia (including mammals).

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Estemmenosuchidae

Estemmenosuchidae is an extinct family of large, very early herbivorous therapsids that flourished during the Middle Permian period.

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Eucynodontia

Eucynodontia ("true dog teeth") is a clade of cynodont therapsids including mammals and most non-mammalian cynodonts.

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Eutheriodontia

Eutheriodontia is a clade of therapsids that includes therocephalians and cynodonts.

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Eutherocephalia

Eutherocephalia ("true beast head") is an infraorder of therocephalian therapsids.

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Evolution

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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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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Galeops

Galeops is an extinct genus of therapsids.

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Galesauridae

Galesauridae is a family of Therapsid reptiles.

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Galesaurus

Galesaurus (from the Greek roots for 'weasel' and 'lizard') was a prehistoric carnivorous therapsid that lived between the Induan and the Olenekian age in what is now South Africa.

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Gondwana

Gondwana, or Gondwanaland, was a supercontinent that existed from the Neoproterozoic (about 550 million years ago) until the Carboniferous (about 320 million years ago).

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Gorgonopsia

Gorgonopsia ("Gorgon face") is an extinct suborder of theriodonts.

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Hair

Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis.

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Haramiyida

Haramiyidans are a long lived lineage of mammaliaform cynodonts.

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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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Hofmeyriidae

Hofmeyriidae is a family of therocephalian therapsids.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Incisor

Incisors (from Latin incidere, "to cut") are the front teeth present in most mammals.

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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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Inostrancevia

Inostrancevia is an extinct genus of carnivorous therapsids, containing the largest members of the family Gorgonopsidae, predators characterized by long, saber-tooth-like canines.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.

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Kannemeyeria

Kannemeyeria was a large dicynodont of the family Kannemeyeriidae, one of the first representatives of the family, and hence one of the first large herbivores of the Triassic.

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Kannemeyeriiformes

Kannemeyeriiformes is a group of large-bodied Triassic dicynodonts.

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Kingoriidae

Kingoriidae is an extinct family of dicynodont therapsids.

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Late Triassic

The Late Triassic is the third and final of three epochs of the Triassic Period in the geologic timescale.

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Lazarus taxon

In paleontology, a Lazarus taxon (plural taxa) is a taxon that disappears for one or more periods from the fossil record, only to appear again later.

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Lizard

Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.

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Lycaenops

Lycaenops ("wolf-face") is a genus of carnivorous therapsids.

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Lycosuchidae

Lycosuchidae is an extinct family of therocephalian therapsids from the Middle Permian Beaufort Group of South Africa.

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Lystrosauridae

Lystrosauridae is a family of dicynodont therapsids from the Permian and Triassic time periods.

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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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Mammaliaformes

Mammaliaformes ("mammal-shaped") is a clade that contains the crown group mammals and their closest extinct relatives; the group radiated from earlier probainognathian cynodonts.

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Middle Triassic

In the geologic timescale, the Middle Triassic is the second of three epochs of the Triassic period or the middle of three series in which the Triassic system is divided.

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Molar (tooth)

The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth.

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Morganucodon

Morganucodon ("Glamorgan tooth") is an early mammaliaform genus that lived during the late Triassic period.

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Morphology (biology)

Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

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Nasal concha

In anatomy, a nasal concha, plural conchae, also called a turbinate or turbinal, is a long, narrow, curled shelf of bone that protrudes into the breathing passage of the nose in humans and various animals.

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Neotherapsida

Neotherapsida is a clade of therapsids.

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Otsheridae

Otsheridae is an extinct family of small herbivorous anomodont therapsids that are known from the Permian of Russia.

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Pangaea

Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.

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Paraphyly

In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups.

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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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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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Permian–Triassic extinction event

The Permian–Triassic (P–Tr or P–T) extinction event, colloquially known as the Great Dying, the End-Permian Extinction or the Great Permian Extinction, occurred about 252 Ma (million years) ago, forming the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, as well as the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras.

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Phthinosuchus

Phthinosuchus is an extinct genus of therapsids from the Middle Permian of Russia.

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Platycraniellus

Platycraniellus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.

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Postcrania

Postcrania (postcranium, adjective: postcranial) in zoology and vertebrate paleontology refers to all or part of the skeleton apart from the skull.

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Pristerodontia

Pristerodontia is a group of dicynodont therapsids that includes cryptodontids, geikiids, lystrosaurids, kannemeyeriids, and other related forms.

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Probainognathia

The probainognathians are members of one of the two major clades of the infraorder Eucynodontia, the other being Cynognathians.

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Probainognathidae

Probainognathidae is an extinct family of carnivorous therapsids which lived during the Upper Triassic.

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Procynosuchidae

Procynosuchidae is an extinct family of therapsids which, along with Dviniidae, were the earliest cynodonts.

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Pylaecephalidae

Pylaecephalidae is a family of dicynodont therapsids that includes Diictodon, Robertia, and Prosictodon from the Permian of South Africa.

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Reptile

Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.

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Robert Broom

Robert Broom FRS FRSE (30 November 1866, Paisley – 6 April 1951) was a Scottish South African doctor and paleontologist.

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Robert L. Carroll

Robert Lynn Carroll (born May 5, 1938) is a vertebrate paleontologist who specialises in Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles.

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Scylacosauria

Scylacosauria is a clade of therocephalian therapsids.

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Scylacosaurus

Scylacosaurus is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids.

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Sinophoneus

Sinophoneus is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsids in the family Anteosauridae.

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Skull

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

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Sphenacodontia

Sphenacodontia is a stem-based clade of derived synapsids.

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Sphenacodontidae

Sphenacodontidae (Greek: "wedge point tooth family") is an extinct family of small to large, advanced, carnivorous, Late Pennsylvanian to middle Permian pelycosaurs.

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Stahleckeriidae

Stahleckeriidae is a family of dicynodont therapsids whose fossils are known from the Triassic of North America, South America, Asia and Africa.

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Styracocephalus

Styracocephalus platyrhynchus ('spike head') is an extinct species of tapinocephalian therapsids that lived during the Guadalupian epoch.

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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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Syodontinae

Syodontinae is a group of dinocephalian therapsids.

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Tapinocephalia

Tapinocephalia is one of the major groups of dinocephalian therapsids and the major herbivorous group.

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Tapinocephalidae

Tapinocephalidae was an advanced family of tapinocephalians.It is defined as the clade containing Ulemosaurus, Tapinocaninus, and the Tapinocephalinae They are known from both Russia and South Africa.

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Temnospondyli

Temnospondyli (from Greek τέμνειν (temnein, "to cut") and σπόνδυλος (spondylos, "vertebra")) is a diverse subclass of extinct small to giant tetrapods—often considered primitive amphibians—that flourished worldwide during the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic periods.

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Tetraceratops

Tetraceratops insignis ("four-horned face emblem") is an extinct synapsid from the Early Permian that may be the first known representative of Therapsida, a group that includes mammals and their close extinct relatives.

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Theriodont

Theriodonts ("beast tooth", referring to more mammal-like teeth) are a major group of therapsids.

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Therocephalia

Therocephalia is an extinct suborder of eutheriodont therapsids from the Permian and Triassic.

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Thrinaxodon

Thrinaxodon is an extinct genus of cynodonts, most commonly regarded by its species T. liorhinus which lived in what are now South Africa and Antarctica.

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Thrinaxodontidae

Thrinaxodontidae is an extinct family of cynodonts that includes the genera Thrinaxodon, Nanictosaurus, Nanocynodon, and Novocynodon, and possibly Bolotridon and Platycraniellus.

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Timeline of the evolutionary history of life

This timeline of the evolutionary history of life represents the current scientific theory outlining the major events during the development of life on planet Earth.

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Titanosuchidae

Titanosuchidae is an extinct family of dinocephalians.

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Tooth

A tooth (plural teeth) is a hard, calcified structure found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and used to break down food.

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Traversodontidae

Traversodontidae is a family of herbivorous cynodonts.

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Triassic

The Triassic is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period Mya.

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Triassic–Jurassic extinction event

The Triassic–Jurassic extinction event marks the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods,, and is one of the major extinction events of the Phanerozoic eon, profoundly affecting life on land and in the oceans.

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Trirachodontidae

Trirachodontidae is an extinct family of cynognathian cynodonts from the Triassic of China and southern Africa.

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Tritheledontidae

The Tritheledontidae or tritheledontids, also known as ictidosaurs, is an extinct family of small to medium-sized (about 10 or 20 cm long) cynodonts.

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Tritylodontidae

Tritylodontidae ("three-knob teeth", named after the shape of animal's teeth) is an extinct family of small to medium-sized, highly specialized mammal-like cynodonts, bearing several mammalian traits like erect limbs, endothermy and details of the skeleton.

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Venjukovia

Venjukovia is an extinct genus of therapsids from the Middle Permian of Russia.

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Venyukoviamorpha

Venyukoviamorpha is an extinct superfamily of anomodont therapsids under the superorder Venyukovoidea.

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Vertebrate paleontology

Vertebrate paleontology is the subfield of paleontology that seeks to discover, through the study of fossilized remains, the behavior, reproduction and appearance of extinct animals with vertebrae or a notochord.

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Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution is an advanced textbook on vertebrate paleontology by Robert L. Carroll, published in 1988 by WH Freeman.

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Whaitsiidae

Whaitsiidae is an extinct family of therocephalian therapsids.

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Eutherapsida, Therapsida, Therapsids, Theromorph.

References

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

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