Anteosaurus: the largest Paleozoic land predator, and likely the largest predatory terrestrial synapsid
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Lisowicia bojani represents the pinnacle of non-mammalian synapsid gigantism, being the biggest species of dicynodont known from the late triassic of Poland. Based on the largest specimen, it could have grown around 5 m in length and weigh around 6 tons.
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Step 1: Synapsids control Earth, archosaurs are driven underground. Step 2: Archosaurs take over, synapsids are driven underground. Step 3 (you are here) Synapsids become sapient, archosaurs are driven underground. Step 4: Archosaurs become sapient, synapsids are driven underground
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Mass extinction Episode VI: Revenge of the synapsids.
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Why did bipedal dinosaurs never evolve flexible hands, but quadripedal synapsids did?

With being bipedal, a pair of limbs is free to evolve further specializations towards grasping instead of walking. Yet for 150+ million years, no dinosaurs or dinosauromorph which was bipedal evolved hands that could pronate or have opposable thumbs.

There was even a pterosaur related to darwinopterus that evolved opposable thumbs.

However synapsids(primates and carnivorous especially) have evolved hands multiple times that can pronate and hold objects at least.

Why is that?

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The first time a lot of us were introduced to the Purlovia was Ark, right? When you think "Purlovia" some may think Carnivorous burrowing synapsid, right? Well, it's mostly wrong. It is a synapsid but it wasn't a carnivore it was a herbivorous critter of late Permian Russia. maybe a borrower idk. reddit.com/gallery/rwhbqo
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Why are Synapsids (especially Mammals) more heterodont and extremely variable (regarding their teeth) between species unlike Reptiles?

I know "more heterodont" is a misnomer, as you are either heterodont or homodont. But I think the wording illustrates the point of my question.

Synapsids, and especially Mammals are heterodont, they have clearly differentiated teeth: usually incisors, canines, premolars and molars. And that trend seems to have started with early Synapsids. However, what bugs me more is the extreme diversity of teeth that we find in them. Look at Mammals: we have rodents with square incisors that keep growing, elephants with also big tusks made from incisors, walrus with big tusks but made from canines, a lot of predators like cats and dogs with big fangs made from canines, even herbivores like the water deer with canine fangs, whatever the hell hippopothamus teeth are, lots of ruminants with grinding molars, Southamerican vampires with sharp fangs made out of incisors... you get my idea.

But when you go to Reptiles, sure there are a few Reptiles that really differentiated their teeth like some snake's fangs. Or Reptiles that don't possess teeth and have beaks instead like turtles and birds. I'm using the term "Reptiles" as monophyletic, that's why I'm including birds (assume I'm saying Diapsids instead of Reptiles). But even before the lineage that gave birds lost their teeth, those theropod dinosaurs were pretty homodont too. In any case, most Reptiles are homodont, they don't usually have differentiated teeth and they tend to have the same function.

Now I know things mutate randomly and if they are not strictly necessary, they are not necessarily favored by natural selection, therefore Reptiles are doing good enough with their low variety of teeth and I get that. However, why Mammals display so much variation between species unlike Reptiles in this particular case of teeth? Both Mammals and Reptiles have had to adapt to a lot of niches throughout the history of life, both have a lot of biodiversity and had to morphologically adapt a lot as an answer to their respective selective pressures, they all have evolved a lot. But when it comes to the variety of teeth between species within the same class, it seems it's mostly only Mammals that had experienced such variability. It's not just the heterodont condition within a single mouth what draws my attention, but that, in Mammals, when you go from species to species, there's a world of difference between them, like the examples I mentioned above (you go from rodents, to elephants, to bats, to primates, and it's all extremel

... keep reading on reddit ➑

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A normal "synapsid" on a "synapsid" ruled land. (Info in comments.)
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πŸ‘€︎ u/not_ur_uncle
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An early Triassic synapsid would probably be scared of our appearance.
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Synapsid convergently evolved with thyreophorans.
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Why did Sauropsids become dominant animals in Triassic, even though there still were more progressive Synapsids after Permian extinction?
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Not sure if synapsids count, but I thought you might enjoy this Cotylorhynchus hancocki reconstruction by @Syn_JFD! twitter.com/Syn_JFD/statu…
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Fossils and reconstructions of Tiarajudens eccentricus, a anomodont synapsid from the Middle Permian of Brazil. reddit.com/gallery/q47o5g
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Wikipedia photo for Synapsids
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A Carboniferous synapsid with caniniform teeth and a reappraisal of mandibular size-shape heterodonty in the origin of mammals royalsocietypublishing.or…
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Lisowicia bojani graze in a swamp in late Triassic Poland as a Coelophysoid dinosaur walks by. Lisowicia was the largest of the dicynodonts and the largest non-mammalian synapsid, about the size of modern elephants.
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If you google "Synapsids" and go to the Wikipedia page, this legitimately pops up, a picture of Brezhnev
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Extant synapsids 10 minutes after K-PG
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Did the sailed synapsids have long genitals?

I know this a bit of a weird/stupid question but they would probably need some long slongs unless they mated tail to tail. Anyways, what are your thoughts on this?

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A Staurikosaurus holds on to his synapsid meal.
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Fossils and reconstructions of Tiarajudens eccentricus, a anomodont synapsid from the Middle Permian of Brazil. reddit.com/gallery/q47ovt
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Question: Are the non mammalian synapsids from an unknown class?

For those of you who are wondering, the non mammalian synapsids where a group of amniotes that thrived during the Triassic and would eventually give rise to mammals. This includes animals like Dimetrodon, Gorgonops and Moschops. They wher eonce called "mammal like reptiles" due to their similarities to them. But know its known that they are not reptiles. That's why now their called proto mammals. But then there's the kicker, there not mammals either. So what class do they belong to then? I have theorized that the non mammalian synapsids belong to an unknown class of vertebrates known as Gymnotheria(Naked Beasts). Gymnotheria would be a class of vertebrates that would as a counterpart to Reptilia, making Mammalia a counterpart to Aves. But what do you think?

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Dimetrodon is an extinct synapsid which lived approximately 295 million to 272 million years ago during the Permian Period. The enormous fin on the back of this animal was used to regulate temperature. youtu.be/h1CRfkO0Bvo
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Spectember - Synapsid-dominated alt timeline
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I'm glad furries haven't figured out how to use early Cenozoic mammals and non-mammalian synapsids as their fursonas...

Also don't worry about them getting ideas, they probably can't read it unless it's in owo...

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πŸ‘€︎ u/not_ur_uncle
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Synapsid appreciation post
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πŸ‘€︎ u/burntphantrash
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TIL Brezhnev was a synapsid. Which one of you did this? reddit.com/gallery/r28dvg
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πŸ‘€︎ u/oliveiramg
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A subreddit for everyone’s favourite very large synapsid
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Spectember Day 2: Post-Triassic Synapsid World reddit.com/gallery/pgblce
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Why were there no flying ancient Synapsids?

Like the were warm blooded right?

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What would the americas look like if synapsids never existed?
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A Synapsid-like creature filling the niche of a bear
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What is the most basal amniote fossil known that lived before the diapsid-synapsid split?
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πŸ‘€︎ u/GeneticJail
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Happy synapsid week! Unfortunately I don’t think I’ll be able to finish this before the end of June so I might as well just post the WIP
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πŸ‘€︎ u/thesesametree
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Spectember 2021 Day 2 (late) - Alternate Triassic with Synapsids
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πŸ‘€︎ u/RaksharAlpha
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Absolute Unit of a synapsid
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πŸ‘€︎ u/FlamingTrashcans
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Who the fuck would say synapsids aren’t reptiles
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How to evolve: β€˜Synapsid-like’ Squamates?(endothermy,movements,flexibility,fur or ”feathers”,etc)

so….. what do you think if you evolved your own species of future β€˜warm blooded’ reptiles (depending in species).

https://i.imgflip.com/5pyy61.jpg

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Synapsid/Archosaurs Meme
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Two very distant relatives of mammals. The small-headed Cotylorhynchus romeri, a caseid synapsid from Early Permian North America, and the large-headed Anteosaurus magnificus (bottom) a dinocephalian from Late Permian Africa. Art by Gabriel Ugueto.
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Why did anapsids go extinct while synapsids and diapsids survived?

I might be wrong and turtles are anapsids but as far as my knowledge goes, anapsids went extinct during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/not_ur_uncle
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Did the Dimetrodon or other early synapsids have hair?
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Why were mammals the only synapsids to survive to the Mesozoic/Cenozoic?
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Synapsid gang rise up
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Prince_of_Old
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Hello fellow Synapsids

How do you feel about feathered Sauropsids.

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Did early synapsids have ears?
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