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=== Brain === Based on an endocranial cast of ''Probainognathus'', several details have been extrapolated about its brain. ''Probainognathus''β cerebral hemispheres were elongated, it had established olfactory bulbs, and a significant cerebellum and flocculi.<ref name="Quiroga">{{cite journal |last1=Quiroga |first1=JC |title=The brain of the mammal-like reptile Probainognathus jenseni (Therapsida, Cynodontia). A correlative paleo-neoneurological approach to the neocortex at the reptile-mammal transition |journal=Journal fΓΌr Hirnforschung |date=1980 |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=299β336 |pmid=7419907 }}</ref> These were among other, less pronounced, structures such as anterior colliculi.<ref name="Quiroga"/> Because of these features, it has been suggested that ''Probainognathus''β brain had well-developed visual, auditory, motor, and body sensory systems. And, as a whole, the brain of ''Probainognathus'' indicates that it was in the process of developing endothermy.<ref name="Quiroga"/>
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