Show us yours (mid-August)--non-mammal Synapsids!

So I was asked to create a second Show Us Your thread this month—this one to show the synapsids, those animals that were ancestral to the mammals.

I have…a lot of prehistoric animals, including a lot of synapsids (and prehistoric mammals…I am really behind on those in the other thread). So I’ll get it rolling, but I’m always looking to find others.

I guess it’s important to clarify the synapsids. It would include animals like Dimetrodon & Edaphosaurus (pelycosaurs); Lycaenops (Gorgonopsids); Moschops (Dinocephalians); Placerias (Dicynodonts) and Cynognathus (Cynodonts), as examples. This group of animals is part of the same massive group that includes the mammals, joined primarily by the location of a particular fossa in the skull. Mammals are the only surviving clade, but for a while various synapsid lines struggled for dominance as predators and herbivores; the end-Permian extinction event pretty much put an end to that.

Early figures were often represented as awkward, but upright, reptile-like animals (some were more lizard-ish); some current models and reconstructions make them more mammal-like, often including vibrissae (whiskers) if not hair. Overall, it is not a well-represented group in toy figures; some, like the Dinocephalia, have an insane range of morphology, but because they tend to be obscure, and come from less familiar locales (Siberia, South Africa) they don’t receive much public attention, so they don’t receive much model attention either!

I’m going to try and picture things by name/grouping.

Pelycosaurs:

Dimetrodon (it goes without saying, this is probably the most common one! It's too the point that I often don't seek them out anymore...)

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Edaphosaurus
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Sphenacodon
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Varanops
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Varanosaurus
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Dinocephalians

Estemmenosuchus
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Keratocephalus
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Moschops
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Gorgonopsids

Inostrancevia
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Lycaenops
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Dicynodonts

Dicynodont
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Queensland dicynodont (Kannemeyeria?)
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Endothiodon
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Ischigualastia
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Kannemeyeria
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Lystrosaurus
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Placerias
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Cynodonts

Cynognathus (some of these are very old school, and very reptile like)
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Exaeretodon
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Procynosuchus
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Trochosaurus
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Alright—that’s everything I have. I am really hoping that there are more out there, it’s a very diverse bunch of animals, and it would be fantastic to know what else might be around!

WOW !!!!!
Utterly awesome collection !!!!

I look forward to having time to take a better look at them.
What a great opportunity for me to try learning more about these, our very-very early ancestors

Thankyou ever so much for sharing

Sean, I am so glad you opened this topic and it is also good that you don't show them all at once!
It is much easier for me once I only have two to show. I am not a collector of prhistoric figures although I find them very interesting, mainly these early creatures. OK, thanks to Susanne's generousness, soon, they'll be three.
But, I think it is interesting to know what each person owns, even if it is already shown.  ... am I the only one that will not show a dimetrodon?

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Bullyland edaphosaurus
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Bullyland procynosuchus

Roger wrote:

Sean, I am so glad you opened this topic and it is also good that you don't show them all at once!
It is much easier for me once I only have two to show. I am not a collector of prhistoric figures although I find them very interesting, mainly these early creatures. OK, thanks to Susanne's generousness, soon, they'll be three.
But, I think it is interesting to know what each person owns, even if it is already shown.  ... am I the only one that will not show a dimetrodon?

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Bullyland edaphosaurus
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Bullyland procynosuchus

Yeah, I kind of overwhelmed in the first post....

But the Bullyland ones are among the best. When Bully was at it's peak, they were the best source for the more unusual species, especially from the Triassic.

Is there an ancient archosaurs thread? There would be several Bullys in that too!

The Prehistoric mammals are the first SUY with extinct animals, - I think that for most ignorants like me, it is very difficult to get so much overview that it is possible to split them up, and all of them is much too overwhelming
Also many ( most?) of our collectors do not collect prehistoric animals to any great extent, so suggestions won't get many votes.

But now we have started.  
Perhaps we could be a good idea if the experts thought of a good way to divide them into meaningful bites like it has been done here...and then perhaps make half-month topics a couple of times a year again ?

What do y'all say ?

Hurrayyy, I thought I only had dimetrodons, but with help from TAI, I found these from Starlux  

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The dimetrodon :
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Edaphosaur Untill these topiucs I thought it was a mammal :
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Endothiodon :
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Cynognathus
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Your post made me realized I made an error before--I do have the Starlux Edaphosurus, but didn't realize that I accidentally posted the small Deiner one twice!

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Very interesting SUY

sbell wrote:

Yeah, I kind of overwhelmed in the first post....

But the Bullyland ones are among the best. When Bully was at it's peak, they were the best source for the more unusual species, especially from the Triassic.

Is there an ancient archosaurs thread? There would be several Bullys in that too!

No, as Susanne commented, prehistoric mammals was the first SUY dedicated to prehistoric creatures and now this is the 2nd. I agree with Susanne, maybe we can open again a special middle month thread, and ancient archosaurs seems a very good suggestion once I love them either. Middle October, perhaps, forum is more active in the last quarter of the year.

Roger wrote:

sbell wrote:

Yeah, I kind of overwhelmed in the first post....

But the Bullyland ones are among the best. When Bully was at it's peak, they were the best source for the more unusual species, especially from the Triassic.

Is there an ancient archosaurs thread? There would be several Bullys in that too!

No, as Susanne commented, prehistoric mammals was the first SUY dedicated to prehistoric creatures and now this is the 2nd. I agree with Susanne, maybe we can open again a special middle month thread, and ancient archosaurs seems a very good suggestion once I love them either. Middle October, perhaps, forum is more active in the last quarter of the year.

It's probably busiest then because that's when the companies start trickling out information for the next year, plus people need to start gift lists for the winter season.

It is no hurry !

But I surely can't make that topic . Googling, I find on Wikipedia that it must be an immence group, covering " Crocodylia, dinosaurs, birds, and several extinct orders "

Perhaps it would be better to split it up into smaller bites? Prehistoric birds, prehistoric crocs and others that are easier to distinguish for people like me, so it does not all depend on poor Sbell ?

SUSANNE wrote:

It is no hurry !

But I surely can't make that topic . Googling, I find on Wikipedia that it must be an immence group, covering " Crocodylia, dinosaurs, birds, and several extinct orders "  

Perhaps it would be better to split it up into smaller bites? Prehistoric birds, prehistoric crocs and others that are easier to distinguish for people like me, so it does not all depend on poor Sbell ?

That is true--the most common split is between the 'croc' lineage and the bird-pterosaur-dinosaur lineage. The latter is obviously more common as figures, and would be better split into much smaller clades. The 'croc' one is likely okay as pretty much 'the rest'; even with living crocodilians, there is a limit (and might give more people on the board a chance to contribute! The prehistoric side is not represented well enough in figures!).

Great mid topic
And great models from Sbell, Roger and Susanne ..

A Hapdotus longicaudatus as figurine would be great for my collection at work :)

widukind wrote:

A Hapdotus longicaudatus as figurine would be great for my collection at work :)

I think the closest that exists so far is the Varanops from shapeways. Assuming it is still there...

Great SUY and impressive collection Sean, I hope we will see more topics like that in the future

Here is my small contribution, with nothing new to show I'm afraid...

The Pelycosaurs: Dimetrodons and edaphosaurus

Papo dimetrodon
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Safari Ltd dimetrodon
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Kaiyodo dimetrodon
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Yujin dimetrodon
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Linde dimetrodon
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Bullyland edaphosaurus
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The therapsids:

Sfari Ltd Inostrancevia
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"Chinasaur" Placerias
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kaiyodo Lystrosaurus
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Kaiyodo Trochosaurus
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Bullyland Procynosuchus
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I'm sorry I have no time to make new pics or family portrait

sbell wrote:

widukind wrote:

A Hapdotus longicaudatus as figurine would be great for my collection at work :)

I think the closest that exists so far is the Varanops from shapeways. Assuming it is still there...

Thank you :) andthe member of shapeways isnt not so active here in this moment

Great critters, Christophe
Your collection is truely stunning !

Please, if you can find time, it would be nice to see the brand and species for each

sbell wrote:

Roger wrote:

sbell wrote:

Yeah, I kind of overwhelmed in the first post....

But the Bullyland ones are among the best. When Bully was at it's peak, they were the best source for the more unusual species, especially from the Triassic.

Is there an ancient archosaurs thread? There would be several Bullys in that too!

No, as Susanne commented, prehistoric mammals was the first SUY dedicated to prehistoric creatures and now this is the 2nd. I agree with Susanne, maybe we can open again a special middle month thread, and ancient archosaurs seems a very good suggestion once I love them either. Middle October, perhaps, forum is more active in the last quarter of the year.

It's probably busiest then because that's when the companies start trickling out information for the next year, plus people need to start gift lists for the winter season.

That's surely the main reason but surely there are some others. :)

Kikimalou wrote:

Great SUY and impressive collection Sean, I hope we will see more topics like that in the future

Here is my small contribution, with nothing new to show I'm afraid...

Christophe, almost missed your precious contribution with several wonderful figures! What is more impressive is the quality of your choices!

A bit late to the party:
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The new Dimetrodon from Kaiyodo, part of the Great Leaps in Evolution exhibition set. I think that's the only one I have that SBell didn't already post.

halichoeres wrote:

A bit late to the party:
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The new Dimetrodon from Kaiyodo, part of the Great Leaps in Evolution exhibition set. I think that's the only one I have that SBell didn't already post.

I only just got it too! I just forgot that there was a place for it!

SUSANNE wrote:

Great critters, Christophe
Your collection is truely stunning !

Please, if you can find time, it would be nice to see the brand and species for each

Job is done... At last

sbell wrote:

halichoeres wrote:

A bit late to the party:
The new Dimetrodon from Kaiyodo, part of the Great Leaps in Evolution exhibition set. I think that's the only one I have that SBell didn't already post.

I only just got it too! I just forgot that there was a place for it!

Very nice one. Which size? A walkaround maybe?

Kikimalou wrote:

SUSANNE wrote:

Great critters, Christophe
Your collection is truely stunning !

Please, if you can find time, it would be nice to see the brand and species for each

Job is done... At last  

sbell wrote:

halichoeres wrote:

A bit late to the party:
The new Dimetrodon from Kaiyodo, part of the Great Leaps in Evolution exhibition set. I think that's the only one I have that SBell didn't already post.

I only just got it too! I just forgot that there was a place for it!

Very nice one. Which size? A walkaround maybe?

It's Dinotales size, they've just changed how they do them.

I could try if someone else doesn't, but I'm not going to be around for the next while.

They've just changed how they do them? What do you mean?