The Museum’s collection contains over 3,000 specimens, including a large amount of material from Africa. The Synapsid and Parareptile Collection includes both non-mammalian synapsids and Mesozoic ...

Mammals (known scientifically as Mammalia) are the only living synapsids, having first evolved around 200 million years ago. But there are many extinct groups of so-called non-mammalian synapsids.