therapsid

IPA: θˈɛrʌpsɪd

Examples of "therapsid" in Sentences

My first therapsid drawings were downright atrocious.
His book “From the Beginning” was also a surprisingly detailed introduction to extinct fish, reptile, and therapsid art.
Descended from creatures called therapsid reptiles, bats first took flight in the Triassic period more than two hundred million years ago.
Gish makes one final effort to discredit the therapsid-mammal links: Many of the diagnostic features of mammals, of course, reside in their soft anatomy or physiology.
Because the fossil evidence of the transition from therapsid to mammal is extensive, detailed and well-studied, it is not surprising that most creationists make no mention of it.
“We arbitrarily group the therapsids as reptiles we have to draw a line somewhere but were they alive, a typical therapsid probably would seem to us an odd cross between a lizard and a dog, a transitional type between the two great groups of backboned animals.”
The entire series of therapsid transitionals are each fully functional, completely capable of chewing their food and detecting airborne sounds just as modern snakes eat with a double jaw joint and detect sounds through bones connected to their skull and jawbones.
As Romer puts it, “We arbitrarily group the therapsids as reptiles we have to draw a line somewhere but were they alive, a typical therapsid probably would seem to us an odd cross between a lizard and a dog, a transitional type between the two great groups of backboned animals.”