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Probably warm-blooded
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therapsid
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WordNet
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n. probably warm-blooded; considered direct ancestor of mammals [syn: protomammal ]
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n. (context biology English) Any extinct reptile of the order ''(taxlink Therapsida order)''; thought to be direct ancestors of the mammals
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Therapsida is a group of synapsids that includes mammals and their ancestors. Many of the traits today seen as unique to mammals had their origin within early therapsids, including having their four limbs extend vertically beneath the body, as opposed to ...
Usage examples of therapsid.
Dimetrodon was a carnivorous pelycosaur, probably ancestral to the therapsids.
Happily, that was the stream we belonged to, and it evolved into a family of protomammals known as therapsids.
Traversodonts continued to survive nearly to the end of the Triassic, with the tritylodonts persisting into the Middle Jurassic as the last surviving therapsids.
Avisaurs and small mammals invaded the realm of the venators and other dinosaurs, along with the therapsids and suchids.
Unable to compete head to head with these aggressive new creatures, the therapsids by and large vanished from the record.
No one had ever measured how deep it was in the middle, but Professor Challenger had found it was full of fish and carried a fine population of fish-eating monsters—crocodiles, mesotherm reptiles, and aquatic therapsids.