therapsid
English Thesaurus
1. probably warm-blooded; considered direct ancestor of mammals (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | synapsid, synapsid reptile, |
| definition | : | extinct reptile having a single pair of lateral temporal openings in the skull (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | chronoperates paradoxus, |
| definition | : | shrew-sized protomammal from the Alberta region of Canada; from about 55 million years ago (much more recent than other mammal-like reptiles) (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cynodont, |
| definition | : | small carnivorous reptiles (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | dicynodont, |
| definition | : | a kind of therapsid (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | order therapsida, therapsida, |
| definition | : | extinct mammal-like reptiles found inhabiting all continents from the mid Permian to late Triassic (noun.animal) |
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