Therapsids, also known as therapsida, are a group of synapsids that includes mammals' early evolutionary ancestors, hence their nickname of 'mammal-like reptiles'. Despite this nickname, therapsids were neither mammals nor reptiles, but an intermediate stage between the two classes. Therapsids evolved from a permian pelycosaurs. Their history ranges from the early Permian to the early Cretaceous.
Classification[]
- Animal
- Vertebrate
- Reptile
- Synapsid
- Dimetrodon
- Edaphosaurus
- Therapsid
- Synapsid
- Reptile
- Vertebrate
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