>probably the most successful family of land vertebrates ever>no living descendantsWhy?
>>5066884>Why?Are we not related to this creature? Isn't it a synapsid?
>>5066903>Are we not related to this creature? Isn't it a synapsid?Related yes, but we and all mammals for that matter, don't descend from them, Lystros are dicynodonts, and we descend from cynodonts.
>>5067007Cute dog. Really starting to get endeared to these weird, lumpy, prehistoric, psuedo-mammals.
>>5067007>we descend from cynodonts.how are you/they so sure about it?is there any genetic evident?
>>5066884They couldn't run from the dinosaurs because our own ancestors blocked off the underground.
>>5066884Too much breathing and burrowing
>>5066884Inbreeding after selecting for eusociality without having wings
>>5066884>the most successful family of land vertebrates ever>no living descendantsEvidently not, kek.
>>5067598Why did they do that?
>>5067582we *most likely, based on all of our data* descend from cynodonts.
>>5067937Pure evil.
>>5066884The mistake that lead to all other mistakes.
>>5067978What the hell is that one in great tier called? I think I would have remembered seeing that one.
>>5066903Synapsids are a clade, not a taxon. Which means there are synapsid vertebrates out there that have no connection between each others other than having a spine
>>5068559Actual retard>>5068563Aren't Diapsids and Anapsids now rolled into Sauropsods?
>>5066884Paleozoic fans.
>>5068734Nah, turtles and scutosaurus are anapsids btw.
>>5067978That's our ancestor.
>>5070690Scutosaurs are parareptiles and turtles are very distant from them
>>5072096shut it nerd
>>5072098That is very clearly not Meiolania
>>5066884They were successful after the great dying. When niches were refilled they were outcompeted by archosauriforms.
>>5074606Yeah, I would imagine that though they bounced back, the archosaurs ended up evolving and outcompeting them into extinction.
>>5074607Rhynchosaurs' radiation in the Ladinian was the nail on the coffin IMO. Kannemeyeriiformes managed to keep going by reaching pachyderm sizes to avoid direct competition with rhynchosaurs and predation by large suchians but such trophic level increase and overspecialisation made them vulnerable to the the T-J extinction (which ironically also killed off both rhynchosaurs and large suchians, lol)
>>5066884because the Permian mass extinction was excessively brutal,idiot
>>5074619They survived the End Permian Mass Extinction. They died out in the late Triassic faunal turnover.
