Synapsid vs Cynodont - What's the difference?
synapsid | cynodont |
Pertaining to the class Synapsida, of animals which have an opening low in the skull roof behind each eye, leaving a bony arch beneath each.
*1999 , (Matt Ridley), Genome , Harper Perennial 2000, p. 26:
*:We are synapsid tetrapods, a group of reptiles that almost went extinct 200 million years ago in competition with the better-designed dinosaurs.
(zoology) Any of several small carnivorous synapsids in the clade , ancestral to mammals and extinct close relatives.