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Last Non-Mammaliaform Therapsids

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Last Non-Mammaliaform Therapsids

~125 Million years ago

The clean marker here is Tritylodontidae. They were cynodont therapsids close to mammals but outside Mammaliaformes, and they survived into the Early Cretaceous. Britannica specifically notes that the last known tritylodontids died out about 125 MYA.


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