Illustration of animals on a riverbank during the Permian period (roughly 299-252 million years ago). At right is a Dimetrodon sp. synapsid. Synapsids are a group of animals that include mammals and extinct amniotes more closely related to mammals. At centre is an Eryops sp. amphibian. Also seen are Diplocaulus sp. amphibians with their boomerang-shaped flattened heads.

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