#Cynognathus crateronotus

[newlabdakos]

Cynognathus crateronotus

(temporal range: 247-237 mio. years ago)

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Cynognathus is an extinct genus of large-bodied cynodontiantherapsids that lived in the Middle Triassic. It is known from a single species, Cynognathus crateronotus. Cynognathus was a 1.2-metre (3 ft 11 in) long[1]predator closely related to mammals and had a southern hemispheric distribution. Fossils have so far been recovered from South Africa, Argentina, Antarctica, and Namibia.

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[saritawolff]

My next non-mammalian synapsid (we really gotta come up with a better name ya’ll) is Cynognathus crateronotus. Cynognathus was a cynodont, a clade with a large variety of animals, all of which have gone extinct except one group: mammals.

Cynognathus was a wolverine-sized predator with a large distribution across the Southern Hemisphere; and it looked very mammalian. Paleontologists believe Cynognathus had hair, whiskers, warm blood, and even the ability to give live birth, long before its mammalian cousins did.

#my art #SaritaDrawsPalaeo #Cynognathus #Cynognathus crateronotus #cynodonts #therapsids #synapsids #non mammalian synapsids

[berenonehanded-blog]

#dimetrodon #Moschops #cynognathus crateronotus #synapsid #dragons