Extinct infraorder of dicynodonts
Dicynodontoidea
Temporal range: Late Permian - Late Triassic |
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| Life restoration of Vivaxosaurus |
Scientific classification  |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Anomodontia |
| Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
| Clade: | †Bidentalia |
| Infraorder: | †Dicynodontoidea
Olson, 1941 |
| Subgroups |
- Counillonia
- Taoheodon
- Dicynodontidae
- Lystrosauridae
- Kannemeyeriiformes
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Dicynodontoidea is an infraorder of dicynodont therapsids that includes the famous dicynodont Dicynodon, Lystrosaurus and the Triassic Kannemeyeriiformes, as well as numerous other closely related species. The name was coined by American paleontologist Everett C. Olson in 1941 as an infraorder, despite using the typical "-oidea" suffix of superfamilies, and was later redefined under a phylogenetic context in 2009 by paleontologist Christian F. Kammerer.[1][2]
References
- ^ Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D. (2009). "A proposed higher taxonomy of anomodont therapsids" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2018: 1–24.
- ^ Christian F. Kammerer (2019). "Revision of the Tanzanian dicynodont Dicynodon huenei (Therapsida: Anomodontia) from the Permian Usili Formation". PeerJ. 7: e7420. doi:10.7717/peerj.7420. PMC 6708577. PMID 31497385.
Taxon identifiers |
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