Ictidodon
Ictidodon is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids 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]
Ictidodon Temporal range: Late Permian | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | †Therocephalia |
Superfamily: | †Baurioidea |
Genus: | †Ictidodon Broom, 1925 |
Type species | |
†Ictidodon agilis Broom, 1925 |
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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