#cynodonts

[immoren]

[antiqueanimals]

The World of Dinosaurs. Written by L. B. Halstead. 1979.

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[netmassimo]

An article published in the journal 'Scientific Reports' reports the identification of a new species of cynodont that lived about 220 million years ago.

An article published in the journal "Scientific Reports" reports the identification of a new species of cynodont that lived about 220 million years ago, in the Triassic period, in today's Argentina. A team of researchers named it Tessellatia bonapartei after examining a partial skull using an unusual neutron tomography technique after a classic X-ray tomography gave limited results due to the high presence of iron in the rock. The researchers' effort paid off because some characteristics suggest a rather close relationship with mammals, which are likely descended from a single group of cynodonts.

[volley-ball-101]

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[vickysaurus]

Thrinaxodon, a cynodont! I'm doing paleoart of three synapsid relatives of the mammals as a kind of bonus page to the Humans and our Cousins project I did. The gap between monotremes and sauropsids just felt too big, and I wanted to try my hand at paleoart anyway. These lived about 250 million years ago in the early Triassic, just after the Permian extinction that wiped out most synapsids, and were carnivores about the size of a fox. While most of their features would have been mammalian like I depicted them, I unfortunately made a mistake I had already committed to before I discovered my initial research was wrong: they probably did not have pinnae (external ear shapes). The position on the back of the lower jaw, however, is where a cynodont's ear would be. In fact that's where most Tetrapods that aren't mammals keep their ears.

[saritawolff]

My next non-mammalian synapsid (we really gotta come up with a better name ya’ll) is Cynognathus crateronotus. Cynognathus was a cynodont, a clade with a large variety of animals, all of which have gone extinct except one group: mammals.

Cynognathus was a wolverine-sized predator with a large distribution across the Southern Hemisphere; and it looked very mammalian. Paleontologists believe Cynognathus had hair, whiskers, warm blood, and even the ability to give live birth, long before its mammalian cousins did.

[zobiez]

Two prehistoric animals- a feathered Dinosaur and a Cynodont!

[netmassimo]

An article published in the journal "PLOS ONE" reports the identification of a new species of cynodont that lived in today's Argentina about 230 million years ago, in the Late Triassic period. A team of researchers subjected a fossil skull to a high-resolution micro-CT scan to study it in detail and named it Pseudotherium argentinum. Its look made paleontologist Ricardo Martínez compare it to Scrat, a squirrel among the characters in the movie "Ice Age".