Dicynodontoidea

Dicynodontoidea
Temporal range: Late Permian - Late Triassic
Life restoration of "Dicynodon" trautscholdi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Infraorder: Dicynodontia
Stem: Bidentalia
Superfamily: Dicynodontoidea
Cope, 1871
Subgroups

Dicynodontoidea is a superfamily of dicynodont therapsids that includes Lystrosauridae and Kannemeyeriiformes. It was first named by American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in 1871 and later described under a phylogenetic definition in 2009.[1]

References

  1. Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D. (2009). "A proposed higher taxonomy of anomodont therapsids" (PDF). Zootaxa 2018: 1–24.


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