#cynodonts

The group ultimately went extinct at the end of the middle Permian during the End-Guadalupian mass #extinction event. They were superseded by more derived neotherapsids in the late Permian. Among these later therapsids were #cynodonts, from which mammals would later emerge in the Mesozoic.

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Disparate life histories in coeval Triassic cynodonts and their implications for the evolution of mammalian life histories | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core Disparate life histories in coeval Triassic cynodonts and their implications for the evolution of mammalian life histories

New pub alert! 🚨 and the final installment of papers from my dissertation!

Really happy to share this work on Triassic cynodonts that reveals surprising growth differences, helping to reshape our understanding of stem mammal evolution #ThinSectionThursday #Paleontology #Cynodonts #Triassic

Brazilian fossils reveal homoplasy in the oldest mammalian jaw joint - Nature The dentary–squamosal contact, traditionally considered to be a typical mammalian feature, evolved more than once and is more evolutionary labile than previously considered.

Cracking new paper from the Bristol #Palaeobiology Research Group shows the key mammalian (dentary-squamosal) jaw joint is not actually unique to #mammals, having evolved independently in #Triassic ictidosaur #cynodonts.

#Palaeontology #Science #EvolutionaryBiology

www.nature.com/articles/s41...