Pelycosaurs Animal Pictures© Kim Alaniz, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons – License / OriginalAdvertisement pelycosaur skeleton © Kim Alaniz, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — License (Original) pelycosaur skeletonView Original ImageView Pelycosaurs Articleany of an order (Pelycosauria) of extinct, primitive, synapsid vertebrates (such as dimetrodonchiefly of the Permian period often having extreme development of the dorsal vertebral processes and giving rise to the therapsids Pelycosaur © Pearson Scott Foresman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — License (Original) PelycosaurView Original ImageView Pelycosaurs Article