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    Synapsida is a diverse group of tetrapod vertebrates that includes all mammals and their extinct relatives. It is one of the two major clades of the group...
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    Subclass Euryapsida (plesiosaurs, placodonts, and ichthyosaurs) Subclass Synapsida (stem or proto-mammals, progenitors of mammals) Class Aves (birds) Subclass...
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    classification of Reptilia in 1903, and erected two major groups: Diapsida and Synapsida, and in 1905, South African palaeontologist Robert Broom created a third...
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    (2011), Benson (2012) and Spinder (2016) unless otherwise noted. Class Synapsida Eupelycosauria Sphenacodontia †Haptodus †Hypselohaptodus †Ianthodon Pantherapsida...
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    most popular definition states that Sauropsida is the sibling taxon to Synapsida, the other clade of amniotes which includes mammals as its only modern...
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    Triassic relatives. Below is the cladogram Clade Synapsida, which follows this phylogeny of Synapsida as modified from the analysis of Benson (2012). The...
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    "The Evolution of the Maxillary Canal in Probainognathia (Cynodontia, Synapsida): Reassessment of the Homology of the Infraorbital Foramen in Mammalian...
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    Fröbisch et al. (2011) and Benson (2012) unless otherwise noted. Class Synapsida Sphenacodontoidea Family †Sphenacodontidae Therapsida Sphenacodontoidea...
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    Eupelycosauria (category Synapsida)
    Luthardt, V. Annacker, and R. Roßler. 2018. First arboreal ‘pelycosaurs’(Synapsida:Varanopidae) from the early Permian Chemnitz Fossil Lagerstatte, SE-Germany...
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    (including cats, dogs, and seals). Mammals are the only living members of Synapsida; this clade, together with Sauropsida (reptiles and birds), constitutes...
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    Benoit, J (2024). "A possible later stone age painting of a dicynodont (Synapsida) from the South African Karoo". PLOS One. Bain, A.G. (1845). "On the discovery...
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    the most primitive subclass of amniotes, the ancestral stock from which Synapsida and Diapsida evolved, making anapsids paraphyletic. It is, however, doubtful...
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  • Greene Formation is a geologic formation located in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania that has been dated to the Seymouran Land-Vertebrate Faunachron...
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  • Flowerpot Formation (also referred to as the Flower Pot Formation) is a geologic formation in Texas and Oklahoma preserving fossils dated to the Early...
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  • The La Boca Formation is a geological formation in Tamaulipas state, northeast Mexico. It was originally thought to date back to the Early Jurassic, concretely...
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  • The Qingtoushan Formation is a Middle Permian-age geologic formation in the Qilian Mountains of Gansu, China. It is known for its diverse tetrapod fauna...
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    "The Evolution of the Maxillary Canal in Probainognathia (Cynodontia, Synapsida): Reassessment of the Homology of the Infraorbital Foramen in Mammalian...
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    Kenneth David; Fröbisch, Jörg (2014). Early evolutionary history of the Synapsida. Dordrecht New York: Springer. pp. 165–169. ISBN 978-94-007-6841-3. Theriodontia...
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    carnivorous biarmosuchians, gorgonopsians and therocephalians. Class Synapsida Order Therapsida Suborder Dinocephalia ?Driveria ?Mastersonia Family Estemmenosuchidae...
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    "Tiarajudens eccentricus and Anomocephalus africanus , two bizarre anomodonts (Synapsida, Therapsida) with dental occlusion from the Permian of Gondwana". Royal...
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    placement of Limnoscelis and the Diadectomorpha relative to Amniota and Synapsida. Heaton's originally classified the diadectomorphs as amphibians, outside...
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  • Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Clade: Synapsida Clade: Therapsida Clade: Cynodontia Clade: Mammaliaformes...
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    Geological Society of America Special Papers, No 28 Synapsida: Sphenacodontia Deuterostoma/Chordata/Synapsida/Pelycosauria/Sphenacodontidae.htm Sphenacodontidae...
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    Kenneth D.; Fröbisch, Jörg (eds.), Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida, Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, Springer Netherlands,...
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    Maganuco, S.; Nicosia, U (2017). "New material of Alierasaurus ronchii (Synapsida, Caseidae) from the Permian of Sardinia (Italy), an dits phylogenetic...
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    process of the zygomatic bone.[clarification needed] The arch is typical of Synapsida ("fused arch"), a clade of amniotes that includes mammals and their extinct...
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    Animalia Phylum: Chordata Clade: Sarcopterygii Clade: Tetrapodomorpha Clade: Synapsida Clade: Therapsida Suborder: †Dinocephalia Family: †Estemmenosuchidae Genus:...
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    M.; Nicosia, U. (2015). "Cladistic analysis of Caseidae (Caseasauria, Synapsida): using the gap-weighting method to include taxa based on incomplete specimens"...
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    Traditionally, amniotes are divided into two groups: a mammal lineage called Synapsida and a reptile lineage called either Reptilia or Sauropsida. In fact, the...
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  • Lists of synapsids (category Synapsida)
    collectively include every genus that has ever been included in the clade Synapsida- the mammals and their evolutionary precursors. The lists includes accepted...
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