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Batterymaster [2017-12-14 03:37:53 +0000 UTC]
It's good, but mammalian ears were only present in cynodonts.
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Xiphactinus [2015-08-04 15:39:47 +0000 UTC]
Good job! But I very much doubt that gorgonopsians were covered with hair. It's like a t-Rex on cock feathers.
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Kazuma27 In reply to Xiphactinus [2015-08-06 09:08:21 +0000 UTC]
Well, it's not that far-fetched IMHO (gorgonopsid with hair, not a rex with cock feathers); what we know from the few skin impressions of permian proto-mammals, some of them had glandular skin (akin to modern mammals), so why others could not have had proper fur?
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Xiphactinus In reply to Kazuma27 [2015-08-07 14:46:24 +0000 UTC]
Fur appeared in therocephalia and cynodontia. Gorgonopsians were more relatives to dinocephalians, and dinocephalia wool was not.
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Angrydinobirds In reply to Xiphactinus [2016-01-16 06:23:12 +0000 UTC]
Anyone remember the discovery of fur and feathers being traced back to a common ancestor? The point is that these life forms have already gotten weird enough, yet strangely familiar to us with these new discoveries, maybe they had at least sparse coverings of hair-like filaments.
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Kazuma27 In reply to Kronosaurus82 [2015-07-22 14:21:19 +0000 UTC]
E' vero... A proposito, come sta Marco?
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