Contents
- Introduction
- Orientation Center
- Room 1 - Vertebrate Origins
- Room 2 - Saurichians
- Room 3 - Ornithiscians
- Room 4 - Primitive Mammals
- Synapsids
- Dimetrodon
- 3 Middle Ear Bones
- Placental Mammals
- Synapsids
- Room 5 - Advanced Mammals
- Conclusion
That was the end of looking at Sauropsids. Next we follow the other branch of amniotes called Synapsids which have that name because of a hole behind the eyes called the Synapsid Opening.
Scientists aren't sure what it is for but it might have been for better chewing.
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Peo poses alongside
the synapsid model.
Peo's first photo of
the synapsid model.
Peo's second photo of
the synapsid model.
Peo poses alongside
the synapsid model.
Peo's first photo of
the synapsid model.
Peo's second photo of
the synapsid model.