Talk:Therapsida

message: Tetraceratops is no longer considered to be a basal Therapsid according to the article Tetraceratops. I would change it myself, but I have no other references to support this. Can someone please confirm that this information is indeed correct? Bomb319 (talk) 16:42, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Intro paragraph needs to be altered

message: I am trying to list the entire lineage from Subspecies to Domain and now I have 2 lines named "Order".  I'm confident this one is wrong.
I just had the same thought ... it does not make sense that the class ‘mammals’ is part of the ‘order’ ...  McChrystal (talk) 10:50, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Could some word other than "Order" be used to name this taxon?

message: For lack of a better name, perhaps Therapsida should be placed in a taxon called a subsuperclass.  What do you think?  --Ingoolemo 01:22, 2004 Jun 13 (UTC)
:It'd probably be better not to try to combine the Linnean and Cladistic systems in this way.  The cladistic system has an indefinite number of branches; these aren't the same as the linnean hierarchies of Class, Phylum, etc.  My own take (others may disagree) is that the cladistic phylogeny and linnean hierarchy are two distinct but complementary approaches to the classification of life.
For a generic cladistic taxonomic "rank" one can always say "plesion"  (I think technically every clade is (or can be called) a "plesion")
--M Alan Kazlev 23:31 (AEST), 2005 Feb 20
::It would be very useful if someone could add the characteristics of Therapsida that distinguish it from other sub-clades of synapsida. When I google, all I find are some vague hints about "differences in posture". Vasi 11:12, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought all therapsids became extinct at the end of the Triassic, and the taxobox said they made it into the Cretaceous. What therapsids existed then? Giant Blue Anteater 02:56, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

text: A number of non-mammalian therapsids lived into the Jurassic, and at least two genera (Xenocretosuchus and and unnamed form from Japan) lived into the EK.Dinoguy2 15:04, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Subclass, class, superclass

message: Not wishing to be rude to anyone but yesterday's rewrite of a large section of this article needs a 'going over' by someone who has reliable knowledge of the subject, so that sense is not lost in editing. I'd do it myself but I'm not confident enough on the factual side. Grammar and punctuation in need of a serious 'spring clean'. - Ballista 05:21, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite needed 

message: I was baffled by the appearance of "believed" in the introduction:
:"Therapsids are an order of synapsids (Class Synapsida) that are believed to include mammals and their immediate evolutionary ancestors." 
The category therapsids is not a matter of "believing" since it is a factual taxonomic category. I understand that there are editors (creationists and the like) around that may question the existence of the species within the category, but it is preposterous to call the category used to catalogue these theoretical species as something that you may believe exists. It exists in academia whether or not the species did.--Berig (talk) 14:09, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "Beliefs"

message: This article needs more attribution in general, but the classification and phylogeny sections especially need sourcing, so that it is clear to the reader (and future editors) exactly how recent the data is and where it comes from. --Animalparty-- (talk) 00:33, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources for classification and clade? 

message: Hope you can update the infobox, navbox, categories, etc. because I'm not sure exactly what ramifications this move should have on them. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 10:43, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post-move 

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message: I don't know if I should be asking this but since mammals are therapsids I think it would be a good idea if I added a picture of a modern mammal say a human to the species box.
:  If you think it's a good idea, then be bold and do it. —Trilletrollet [ Talk | Contribs ] 23:12, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:   Oh, ok. —Trilletrollet [ Talk | Contribs ] 23:37, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding a picture of a modern mammal to the species box.