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Endotherm
Upright gait
More differentiated teeth
Top carnivore
Dilsotodon:
Endotherm
Burrower, herbivore
In the Permian extinction
Climate: Hot and dry (end of permian)
In Pangea, supercontinent
Evolution of the synapsid jaw
- movement of the jaw joint higher in the skull
- increase differentiation of teeth
- Increase complexity if ear ossicles
(early evolution of animal)
Trend caused not by progression (straight line path)
- A sequence of fishes, a sequence of evolutionary radiations
Radiation od scelaractinian (hexacorals, modern)
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