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The mammal-like reptiles, or the Synapsida, hold an important position in the study of tetrapod vertebrate evolution for several reasons. First, the pelycosaurs and their therapsid derivatives, the two groups that comprise the synapsids, probably evolved from the cotylosaurs (the “stem reptiles”) (Carroll, 1969), and gave rise much later to the mammals (Fig. 1). Indeed, the mammal-like reptiles were the dominant terrestrial tetrapods throughout the Permian and the Triassic, the period from roughly 300 to 190 million years ago (Romer, 1966). Given this position in phylogeny, these extinct members of the Class Reptilia have always held the interest of those interested in the origins and derivation of mammals (e.g., see Simpson, 1959; Crompton and Jenkins, 1979).
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Duvall, D., King, M.B., Graves, B.M. (1983). Fossil and Comparative Evidence for Possible Chemical Signaling in the Mammal-Like Reptiles. In: Müller-Schwarze, D., Silverstein, R.M. (eds) Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9652-0_2
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