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Meaning of "cynodonts"
cynodonts: a group of extinct mammal-like reptiles that existed during the Triassic period, characterized by their specialized teeth and jaw structure
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The cynodonts led to the true mammals.
Brasilodontidae is an extinct family of cynodonts closely related to mammals.
The cynodonts include the mammals.
Pachygenelus is an extinct genus of tritheledontid cynodonts.
Cynodonts have nearly all the characteristics of mammal.
Probelesodon is an extinct genus of chiniquodontid cynodonts.
Early cynodonts have many of the skeletal characteristics of mammals.
Clearly these dinosaurs have not met cynodonts before.
Cynodonts also developed a secondary palate in the roof of the mouth.
It is considered to be one of the earliest and most basal cynodonts.
Cynodonts embody the transition from mammal like reptiles into modern mammals.
Traversodontidae is a family of herbivorous cynodonts.
A close relationship between therocephalians and cynodonts had been recognized for many years.
Abdalodon has been important for discerning the early evolution of cynodonts.
The cynodonts lie secure and cool through the hottest part of the day.
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Cynosaurus is an extinct genus of cynodonts.
The bond between Cynodonts is extraordinarily strong.
The lacrimal bone is smaller and narrower than is typical for early cynodonts.
The fossil record of Permian cynodonts is characterized by a long ghost lineage.
The Eutheriodontia are a clade of therapsids that includes therocephalians and cynodonts.
Santacruzodon is an extinct genus of cynodonts which existed in Brazil during the Triassic period.
The cynodonts probably had some form of warm-blooded metabolism.
Most of the features that distinguish trirachodonts from other cynodonts are found in their dentition.
The bond between cynodonts is very strong - they pair for life.
This denies the dinosaurs their food and gives the cynodonts the chance of escape.
Tritylodontid cynodonts seem to have displayed lactation, based on their dental replacement patterns.
Traversodontidae belongs to a large clade of cynodonts called Cynognathia.
Thus, cynodonts probably had a metabolic rate and large food requirement similar to mammals.
By the Carnian they had been supplanted by traversodont cynodonts and rhynchosaur reptiles.
The advanced cynodonts have very mammal-like rib cages, with greatly reduced lumbar ribs.
These most closely resemble the dentition of other carnivorous cynodonts of the Upper Triassic.
Other basal cynodonts were the procynosuchids, a family that includes Procynosuchus and Dvinia.
Ecteniniidae is an extinct family of probainognathian cynodonts from the Triassic of South America.
Traversodonts are members of Gomphodontia, a group of herbivorous cynognathian cynodonts.
Colbertosaurus is an extinct genus of traversodontid cynodonts from the Middle Triassic of Argentina.
The main cusp of Abdalodon 's postcanines is straighter than those of other early cynodonts.
Novocynodon is an extinct genus of thrinaxodontid cynodonts from the Middle Permian of Russia.
Procynosuchidae is an extinct family of therapsids which, along with Dviniidae, were the earliest cynodonts.
Medium-sized omnivorous aetosaurs and cynodonts were also present.
The first cynodonts evolved in the Permian, but many groups prospered during the Triassic.
Remains of terrestrial crocodylomorphs, cynodonts and early mammals are also abundant.
Meanwhile, the Coelophysis are starting to dig the cynodonts out.
They included the therocephalians, cynodonts and their descendants - the mammals.
The Cynodonts like Divinia, were the most mammal like of the early Synapsids.
It was a fairly close relative of mammals, the only group of cynodonts alive today.
Most Jurassic and Cretaceous cynodonts were herbivorous, though some were carnivorous.
Cynodonts evolved mammal-like jaws, with specialised teeth.
During their evolution, the jaw of the cynodonts reduced the number of jaw bones.
Eucynodontia ( " true dog teeth " ) is a clade of cynodont therapsids including mammals and most non-mammalian cynodonts.
Madysaurus ( Madygen reptile ) is an extinct genus of cynodonts which existed in Kyrgyzstan.
