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Snider-Pellegrini Wegener fossil map showing distribution of Triassic fossils across continents.

 the locations of certain fossil plants and animals on present-day, widely separated continents would form definite patterns (shown by the bands of colors), if the continents are rejoined…” (source: US Geological Survey)


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Evolvems:  Dimetrodon (early Synapsid reptile) evolves into Cynognathus (mammal like reptile)

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Evolvems:  Dimetrodon (early Synapsid reptile) evolves into Cynognathus (mammal like reptile)

Cynognathus will not be denied!     (image: Nobu Tamura)

Cynognathus crateronotus was a meter-long predator of the Early to Middle Triassic. It was among the more mammal-like of the Synapsids, a member of a grouping called Eucynodontia. The genus Cynognathus had an almost worldwide distribution…

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