>>48722695bulbasaur is a fictional animal with no genus, but given that a scientist researching non-mammalian synapsids decided that a newly discovered specimen should be named after bulbasaur, then perhaps bulbasaur's anatomy and closest real world counterpart (not including the fucking plant) fits a non-mammalian synapsid rather than an amphibian or dinosaur, intentionally or not made that way by Atsuko Nishida.
And don't be obtuse with
>Umm actually it formally is not based on bulbasaur at all 
