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anapsid

NOUN
  1. primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles

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  • Turtles were considered to be living anapsids although there was a significant temporal gap between the last anapsid reptile fossil and the first turtle fossil. Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb
  • I think i’ve got this now: basal anapsid reptiles (which presumably gave rise to synapsid and sauropsid lineages) died out leaving no descendants. turtles, full diapsid reptiles closely allied to crocodiles, secondarily developed a seemingly (but not osteogenically identical) anapsid skull structure subsequently. Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Four - The Panda's Thumb
  • This is where Lenny caustically suggested that I was a YEC for not knowing that turtles had been reclassified as diapsids with a secondarily anapsid appearing skull I hope that embryologically turtle skulls start off as diapsid and then change but I dont really know. Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb
  • Mesasaurs were small crocodilian-like anapsid reptiles of about 300 million years ago. The Mosasaur and the missing link - The Panda's Thumb
  • I think i’ve got this now: basal anapsid reptiles (which presumably gave rise to synapsid and sauropsid lineages) died out leaving no descendants. turtles, full diapsid reptiles closely allied to crocodiles, secondarily developed a seemingly (but not osteogenically identical) anapsid skull structure subsequently. Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Four - The Panda's Thumb
  • There are indications that they are only secondarily anapsid. Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb
  • Rental cars charlotte awhile for the swarthiness the apprehension of any azalea he has apraxic in a unmalleability or negligence anapsid, we are rectilineal at, bitingly, an nutrient huckster. Rational Review
  • If anything, the synapsids seem more closely related to anapsids than diapsids.
  • The anapsids start out with elongate jaws and rostra, but the entire muzzle becomes progressively shorter across their phylospace.
  • Turtles reflect the ancestral ‘anapsid’ condition and lack temporal fenestration.
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