Editing Synapsida (section)

===Practical versus phylogenetic usage of "synapsid" and "therapsid"===
In [[phylogenetic nomenclature]], the terms are used somewhat differently, as the daughter clades are included. Most papers published during the 21st century have treated "Pelycosaur" as an informal grouping of primitive members. Therapsida has remained in use as a clade containing both the traditional therapsid families and mammals.

Although Synapsida and Therapsida include modern mammals, in practical usage, those two terms are used almost exclusively when referring to the more [[basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] members that lie outside of [[Mammaliaformes]].