synapsid
IPA: sˈɪæpsɪd
noun
- Any animal (including all mammals) of the class Synapsida.
adjective
- Pertaining to the class Synapsida, of animals which have an opening low in the skull roof behind each eye, leaving a bony arch beneath each.
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Examples of "synapsid" in Sentences
- Synapsids as a reptilian subclass.
- Similarly, mammals are a type of synapsid.
- It belong to a synapsid suborder called Therocephalia.
- Some could have evolved into larger species of synapsid.
- Big canines are a consistent theme in synapsid evolution.
- The synapsids are the mammal like reptiles and the mammals.
- The encapsulated group infect synapsid and mammalian hosts.
- The one and only specimen represents a sphenacodontid synapsid.
- "Non-mammalian synapsid" is a nice, precise, accurate term, too.
- It is included in the synapsid clade Caseidae in the order Pelycosauria.
- The most common land animal was a small herbivorous synapsid Lystrosaurus.
- Dated to 306 million years ago, it is the oldest undisputed synapsid known.
- The Eothyrididae were a small group of very primitive, insectivorous synapsids.
- I've always liked "non-mammalian synapsid," even though it takes awhile to say.
- I guess this lets me "improve" my hideous Alt-Permian picture, and maybe draw up a real Permian synapsid, too.
- The term "synapsid" is increasingly used cladistically, including mammals -- thus, synapsids are not extinct at all.
- At least I have a start on the model, but to be honest the piece won't and sadly at this point can't be as complicated as my synapsid one.
- I was under the impression that “therapsid” always referred to a kind of synapsid reptile and was distinct from “pelycosaur” another kind of synapsid think dimetrodon.
- Otherwise, we have more of the lumbering and vaguely stegosaur-like "stegodons" seen elsewhere in Azeroth and a bizarre mutation of basilisk that they're calling "Diemetradon" (clearly loosely inspired by the Permian-aged Dimetrodon, which, you'll note, isn't a dinosaur, but, rather, a pelycosaurian synapsid).