Question

Using information found on the Internet, describe the features of Therapsids that suggest this group was transitional to reptiles and mammals.

Please be specific!

Answer 1

Therapsids are a group of mammal like reptiles that share many features of the body. So basically what this means is that these animals from the Therapsids helps the humans evolve. Therapsids had canine teeth and so do mammals. Their jaws where structured similar to ours and so were their teeth. Their molars were in the back so they chomp their food like meat, just like the humans. The reptiles in the Therapsids group have legs that were more vertical from their body like humans. Where other reptiles did not, they had legs that were sprawled out from their body.The reptiles in the Therapsids group also had turbinates bones like humans. They were also thought to be warm blooded just like humans. There are some similarities that could leave one to believe that there is a connection, but I don’t think so. I think that humans have a more thing in common with chimpanzees

Answer 2

Therapsids is a group of synapsids which includes mammals and their ancestors. Many of the traits that are seen today belongs to mammals that their origin in Therapsids.

They had four limbs that were extended vertically in the lower side of the body as which shows a sprawling opposed posture that is usually seen in reptiles. They had first and last fingers short and in between the fingers were long like mammals.

The physical appearance of Therapsids shows that it was a transitional animal in between mammals and reptiles.