Biology:Pristerodontia

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Short description: Group of mammals

Pristerodontia
Temporal range: Late PermianLate Triassic
Oudenodon latirostris.jpg
Skull of Oudenodon latirostris
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: Anomodontia
Clade: Dicynodontia
Parvorder: Pristerodontia
Cluver and King, 1983
Clades

Pristerodontia is a group of dicynodont therapsids that includes cryptodontids, geikiids, lystrosaurids, kannemeyeriids, and other related forms. Pristerodontians were one of the few groups of dicynodonts to survive the Permian–Triassic extinction event, diversifying in the Triassic.[1]

Phylogeny

Pristerodontia in a cladogram modified from Angielczyk and Rubidge (2010) showing the phylogenetic relationships of Dicynodontia:[2]

Dicynodontia 

Eodicynodon

Colobodectes

Lanthanostegus

 Pylaecephalidae 

Robertia

Diictodon

Prosictodon

Chelydontops

Endothiodon

Pristerodon

 Emydopoidea 

Emydops

Myosaurus

 Kingoriidae 

Dicynodontoides

Kombuisia

 Cistecephalidae 

Cistecephalus

Cistecephaloides

Kawingasaurus

 Pristerodontia 

Interpresosaurus

Elph

Rhachiocephalus

 Cryptodontidae 

Oudenodon

Tropidostoma

Australobarbarus

 Geikiidae 

Odontocyclops

Idelesaurus

Aulacephalodon

Geikia

Pelanomodon

 Dicynodontoidea 

Katumbia

Delectosaurus

Dicynodon

Lystrosauridae

Kannemeyeriiformes

Vivaxosaurus

References

  1. Maisch, M.W. (2002). "A new basal lystrosaurid dicynodont from the Upper Permian of South Africa". Palaeontology 45 (2): 343–359. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00240. Bibcode2002Palgy..45..343M. 
  2. Kenneth D. Angielczyk; Bruce S. Rubidge (2010). "A new pylaecephalid dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, Middle Permian of South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (5): 1396–1409. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.501447. Bibcode2010JVPal..30.1396A. 

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