How To Use cynodont In A Sentence
- The tritylodonts were among the last of the cynodonts to appear.
- The last dicynodont: an Australian Cretaceous relict. Archive 2006-05-01
- Rhyncosaurs and cynodonts are far more common, and in fact the rhyncosaur Scaphonix accounts for half of all tetrapod fossils.
- Luo and coworkers find that Haramiyavia is not even a mammaliform but an aberrant cynodont.
- The cynodonts are sometimes thought to be mammalian ancestors, but there are minor features which debar them, some believe, from such position.
- The Allotheria are so different from anything else that one can almost imagine their derivation from an entirely separate line of cynodonts.
- As Rowe points out, the early cynodonts were the first synapsids in which the brain filled the endocranial cavity.
- The wide diversity of large aetosaurs suggests that they have taken over the role of big herbivore vacated by the trilophosaurs, rhynchosaurs, and dicynodonts with their disappearance from the region at the end of the Carnian.
- The image above combines Laurie Beirne’s dicynodont life restoration, used in the press releases for Thulborn & Turner (2003), and on the front cover of the relevant issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, with a photo of the Australian fossil. Archive 2006-05-01
- These advanced tiny cynodonts were probably very successful, but remain poorly known, because such tiny remains are only rarely fossilized.