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- noun Plural form of
therapsid .
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Fossil vertebrates are particularly abundant in the Chañares section, and most of them belong to therapsids, which is an ancestral group of mammals.
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The earliest mammals evolved from primitive terrestrial reptiles called therapsids, which lived some 200 million years ago.
Controversies in Evolution: 'Jurassic beaver' unearthed in China - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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"Before this discovery it was thought that Anomodonts and other creatures within the group known as therapsids or mammal-like reptiles originated in Russia," said Rubidge, who heads the Wits
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Years ago, I came up with my own race called the Ghrendali - a race of sentient therapsids that live on a planet orbiting the star Delta Draconis also known as Altais, Nodus Secundus, or Aldib.
Archive 2009-09-01 Nima 2009
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Then in middle school I got into therapsids and found them even more interesting than dinosaurs, with all those crazy head shapes and strange tooth arrangements.
Life's Time Capsule: Member Bio: Nima Sassani Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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Both the Karoo and Siberia, where therapsids are common, were high-latitude places in the Permian.
Life's Time Capsule: Making of Karoo Sunset Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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Years ago, I came up with my own race called the Ghrendali - a race of sentient therapsids that live on a planet orbiting the star Delta Draconis also known as Altais, Nodus Secundus, or Aldib.
Life's Time Capsule: The Odds and Ends #1 Gallery Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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Then in middle school I got into therapsids and found them even more interesting than dinosaurs, with all those crazy head shapes and strange tooth arrangements.
Archive 2009-10-01 Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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Literally thousands of specimens have been collected from this formation, including reptiles, amphibians, therapsids and a great number of plants.
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The earliest therapsids show the typical reptilian type of jaw joint, with the articular bone in the jaw firmly attached to the quadrate bone in the skull.
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