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The origin of mammal like reptiles occur...

The origin of mammal like reptiles occurred in

A

Triassic period

B

Permian period

C

Jurassic period

D

Tertiary period

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B
Mammals evolved from a group of reptiles called the synapsid. These reptiles arose during the Pennsylvanian period (310 to 275 million years ago). A branch of synapsis called the therapsids appeared by the middle of permion period. It was over million of years that some of these therapsid would evolved many feature that would later be associated with mammals.
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