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Dimetrodon or “two measures of teeth” is a non mammalian synapsid that is easily recognised by its large sail

At up to 4m long and 250kg in weight, it would have been the apex predator of its Permian ecosystem (~295-272 Ma)

Predation illustration by Bob Bakker

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2022-08-26

Cotylorhyncus was an herbivorous synapsid that lived during the Permian. It also had a teeny-tiny head. Why was its head so small? I honestly don't know. If you have more info, please let me know, I am begging

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2022-08-20

Meet the Dimetrodon (Dimetrodon angelensis), a large synapsid (NOT A DINO) of the sphenacodontidae family. Model based on a recent study on the sail (credit: Christian Kammerer). Colors based on Rebecca Groom's illustration

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2022-08-02

Here's a thread of some art I made a couple of years ago when I had a HUGE synapsid phase.

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2022-07-01

Sorry it’s so scribbly, but here’s a sleepy guy! My favorite synapsid =]

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2022-06-20

Cotylorhynchus was one of the very first large terrestrial herbivores ever and honestly kind of looks like a first attempt. It was an Early Permian synapsid, a mammal relative rather than an actual reptile.

Wip for a book illustration.

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2022-06-15

So Beyond the Gates has showed some of the ILM CGI models of some of the Dinosaurs and Synapsids in

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2022-06-15

Newest of murrayi. These squat little were the most abundant land vertebrates in their communities.

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2022-06-07

Quick studies of the large gorgonopsian Rubidgea for a possible commission. Meet your toothy distant relative. Synapsids have been doing this saber-toothed thing for a very long time

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2022-05-18

did u know that synapsids had piercings? how cool!

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2022-05-02



Not a dinosaur? It must have been a great surprise to find the skull of an ancient animal with very big teeth in PEI back in 1845! Sphenacodontids are non-mammalian synapsids, large terrestrial vertebrates that lived before the dinosaurs during the Permian Period.

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2022-04-23

📢New pub!📢 New material of Dicynodon angielczyki (Synapsida: Anomodontia) from Mozambique and Zambia with biostratigraphic implications for African Permo-Triassic basins by and colleagues!

https://t.co/wA7KBtrTz0

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2022-04-21

Dicynodonts were members of a diverse clade of non-mammalian therapsids. This is Ischigualastia, from Argentina.

https://t.co/PlBMaQW3Hi

Design by

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2022-04-18






Sleepy Pablo or the art that make me yawning.

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2022-04-13

adopt batch - prehistoric friends ✨️

🌊 | Coastal Terror Bird [OPEN]
🐯 | Tiger Synapsid [OPEN]
🌸 | Valentine Mastodon [OPEN]

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2022-03-30

Y'all pointed out the synapsid-ish anatomy, but as a Mesoamerican history nerd I'll also point out the pyramid isn't Aztec: It's the Temple of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza, a Maya site

Aztec pyramids often had twin shrines, distinctive roofs and "abutments" on the summit platform...

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2022-03-13

Le saviez-vous ?

Les dimeurtrodons sont nommés et modélisés d'après le Dimétrodon, un genre de synapsides qui vivait au Permien.

Alors qu'ils sont appelé "dinosaures" dans WOW, le vrai Dimétrodon, comme tous les autres synapsides, était en fait plus proche des mammifères.

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2022-03-05

Falsumaurus: "During an expedition to the Muyd Falls, we spotted an odd animal in the distance. As we followed it's hoof-like tracks, we saw it looking out over a river. Truly a bizarre animal, it looks like a mix between a bovine and a synapsid."

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2022-02-20