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: http://www.livescience.com/7488-world-strangest-creature-part-mammal-part-reptile.html
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapsid
Technically they can't be any of those things because the categories aren't arbitrary - at least they haven't been since we understood why animals fall into categories and what they mean.
TL;DR they are the result of descent with modification.
Jackals didn't descend from any earth species. They don't have a common ancestor with anything on earth. Unless this common ancestor was some spore, something pre-bacteria/archea/viral. If this was the case they still wouldn't be members of any of those categories (clades) because those clades are derived from the, supposed, common ancestor-spore-thingy.
A simple tree (that assumes common ancestry) would be:
spore-thingy
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|- lots of things that we don't know about -> jackals
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|- eukaryotes -> metazoa -> amniotes -> sauropsids
jackals are not sauropsids