Ictidodon
| Ictidodon Temporal range: Late Permian | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Therocephalia |
| Superfamily: | †Baurioidea |
| Genus: | †Ictidodon Broom, 1925 |
| Type species | |
| †Ictidodon agilis Broom, 1925 | |
Ictidodon is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsid from the Late Permian of South Africa. The type species Ictidodon agilis was named by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1925.[1] Broom classified Ictidodon in the Scaloposauridae, a group of small-bodied therocephalians that are now thought to be juvenile forms of larger therocephalians. Ictidodon and many other scaloposaurids are now classified as basal members of the clade Baurioidea.[2]
References
- ↑ Boonstra, L.D. (1954). "XXVII.—A Scaloposaurid from the Tapinocephalus-zone". Journal of Natural History Series 12 7 (74): 153–157. doi:10.1080/00222935408651711.
- ↑ Huttenlocker, A. (2009). "An investigation into the cladistic relationships and monophyly of therocephalian therapsids (Amniota: Synapsida)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157 (4): 865–891. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00538.x.
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