Dicynodontoidea
Appearance
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 Cope, 1871 |
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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
- ^ Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D. (2009). "A proposed higher taxonomy of anomodont therapsids" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2018: 1–24.