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pelycosaur

NOUN
  1. large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America

How To Use pelycosaur In A Sentence

  • Between the Carboniferous pelycosaurs and the first Jurassic mammals, the jaw articulation changed.
  • Pelycosaurs and therapsids are two different orders of reptiles.
  • Pelycosaur, therapsid, and mammal represent three evolutionary grades in a single progressive evolutionary axis.
  • All groups of pelycosaurs went extinct by the end of the Permian.
  • Nevertheless these primitive animals were more advanced on the road the to mammalian evolution, and, like the pelycosaurs, diverged along several lines as herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores.
  • It is a box-like construction, more like a pelycosaur than a mammal, with the large flat maxillae forming the sides, the nasal the top, the the tall premaxilla at the rostral end.
  • The earliest occurring and phylogenetically most primitive synapsids are the ‘pelycosaurs’ of traditional terminology.
  • These basal forms evolved through the primitive pelycosaur stage, to the therapsids or mammal-like reptiles, and finally the mammals themselves.
  • An interesting example of convergent evolution is seen between these pelycosaurs and the unrelated dinosaurs.
  • Indeed, most workers recognized a geographical and temporal gap between Permo-Carboniferous ‘pelycosaurs’ and therapsid synapsids.
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