Help Identifying An Unknown Synapsid
Identifying an unknown synapsid
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Help Identifying An Unknown Synapsid
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by AlanF » Nov 17, 2019 8:34 pm
For an essay critiquing some creationist arguments, I want to identify the synapsid shown below. I'm pretty sure this is from the late Triassic, perhaps a bit earlier than Morganucodon. Thanks in advance!
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Re: Help Identifying An Unknown Synapsid
#2 by Ironclad » Nov 17, 2019 9:26 pm
No idea, but you're in good company.
Cynognathus, mayhaps?
Cynognathus, mayhaps?
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Re: Help Identifying An Unknown Synapsid
#3 by AlanF » Nov 27, 2019 3:42 pm
I'm pretty sure I've identified it: Kayentatherium.
From Donald Prothero's Evolution book.
From Donald Prothero's Evolution book.
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Re: Help Identifying An Unknown Synapsid
#4 by laklak » Nov 27, 2019 5:15 pm
Big Toothed Scary Fucker, I think.
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Re: Help Identifying An Unknown Synapsid
#6 by SkyMutt » Dec 03, 2019 1:13 am
AlanF wrote:I'm pretty sure I've identified it: Kayentatherium.
From Donald Prothero's Evolution book.
I'd say you're correct. From page 28 of the PDF of "The Postcranial Skeleton of Kayentatherium wellesi from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona and the Phylogenetic Significance of Postcranial Features in Tritylodontid Cynodonts" (page 141 in original), this detail, reversed from the published image:
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