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单词 therapsid
释义

therapsid

/θɛˈrapsɪd /
noun
A fossil reptile of a Permian and Triassic order, the members of which are related to the ancestors of mammals.
  • Order Therapsida, subclass Synapsida: many families and numerous genera, including the cynodonts.
Pelycosaurs and therapsids are two different orders of reptiles....
  • Consequently, lung ventilation rates and, by extension, metabolic rates of the earliest mammals, and at least some Triassic Period therapsids, are likely to have approached or been equal to those of extant mammals.
  • It is even seen in a group of therapsids (ancestors of mammals), the tritylodonts, which lived during the Jurassic.

Origin

Early 20th century: from modern Latin Therapsida, from Greek thēr 'beast' + hapsis, hapsid- 'arch' (referring to the structure of the skull).

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