Whaitsiidae

Whaitsiidae
Temporal range: Late Permian
Theriognathus laticeps skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Suborder: Therocephalia
Clade: Eutherocephalia
Family: Whaitsiidae
Haughton, 1918
A 1918 illustration of the skull of Whaitsia platyceps, now classified as Theriognathus major

Whaitsiidae is an extinct family of therocephalian therapsids.[1]

References

  1. 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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