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Cynognathus




Pronounced: sine-og-NATH-us

Literally, "dog-jawed"

A meat-eating mammal-like Therapsid reptile that lived during the lower Triassic period of the Mesozoic era, some 225 million years ago. The Therapsids are considered to be the direct ancestors of the warm-blooded mammals.

      
      


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