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- noun Plural form of
cynodont .
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This trend reaches its apex in a group of therapsids known as cynodonts, of which the genus Probainognathus is a representative.
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The cynodonts were the only mammal-like reptiles to survive to the Jurassic (200 MYA-145 MYA); in fact they nearly made it into the Cretaceous (145 MYA - 65.5 MYA), and definitely coexisted with many of the major dinosaurs.
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My gorgonopsians and cynodonts are fuzzy without exception – but the dicynodonts are simply naked-skinned.
Life's Time Capsule: Member Bio: Nima Sassani Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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My gorgonopsians and cynodonts are fuzzy without exception – but the dicynodonts are simply naked-skinned.
Archive 2009-10-01 Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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Among synapsids, this combination of features is reportedly only seen in non-mammalian cynodonts, and Fox et al. concluded that Chronoperates must have been one of these: the first of them (at the time) to come from post-Jurassic strata.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Superficially, the teeth resemble those of Triassic non-mammalian cynodonts like Therioherpeton.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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For other recent examples see ‘Time wandering’ cynodonts and The first new mammal in 100 years?.
When eagles go bad, one more time... part II Darren Naish 2006
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How was it that post-Jurassic basal cynodonts had remained undetected for so long?
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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For other recent examples see ‘Time wandering’ cynodonts and The first new mammal in 100 years?.
Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006
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As for the post-cranial skeleton, other cynodonts closely related to Probainognathus show various features prophetic of the mammalian skeleton.
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