Despite having what you could call a “lizard” body plan was an early synapsid, the group that would eventually evolve into mammals.

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Yours truly has tried his hand at texturing this Ophiacodon model! No doubt some improvements will come before this gets into the mod.

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Carboniferous sketches day 3. Echinerpeton, an ophiacodontid synapsid (according to Mann and Paterson, 2019) is considered to be the first sail-backed amniote. Late Carboniferous of North America. I tried a much more graphic style today

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Ophiacodon is an extinct synapsid that roamed Europe & North America during the Late Carboniferous. They grew to 3 metres in length & spent a lot of time in the water.

(Credit: Mineo Shiraishi)

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