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Fig. 5

From: Dimetrodon Is Not a Dinosaur: Using Tree Thinking to Understand the Ancient Relatives of Mammals and their Evolution

Fig. 5

a Photograph of the left side of a fossil Dimetrodon skull (FMNH UC 40) showing the location of the synapsid temporal opening behind the eye socket. b Line drawing of a human skull showing the location of the synapsid temporal opening behind the eye socket. Jaw muscles attach to the skull in the vicinity of the temporal opening, and it is an important character that allows us to identify living and fossil synapsids. Images are not to scale

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Evolution: Education and Outreach

ISSN: 1936-6434

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