- Cryptodontidae
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Cryptodontidae
Temporal range: Middle Permian–Late Triassic [1][2]
Oudenodon impression Conservation status FossilScientific classification Domain: Eukarya Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata (unranked): Sauropsida Superclass: Tetrapoda Class: Synapsida Superorder: †Anomodontia Family: †Cryptodontidae Owen, 1861[1] Genera Synonyms - †Thyasiridae Boss, 1982[5]
The family Cryptodontidae (also known as Cryptodontia[1] or Thyasiridae[5]) was a group of anomodonts from the Permian and Triassic time periods.[1]
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Distribution
Permian
In the Permian time period cryptodontids lived in what is now India and South Africa.[1]
Triassic
In the Triassic time period cryptodontids lived in what is now Russia.[1]
Ecology
The Cryptodontids were herbivores.[1]
Classification
The family Cryptodontidae was assigned to Anomodontia by M. T. Carrano in 2009.[1]
Relatives
Main article: AnomodontiaPhylogeny
Classification of anomodonts with Cryptodontidae as a subgroup.
unnamed Cryptodontidae Idelesaurus
unnamed Biseridens
unnamed unnamed Venyukovioidea unnamed Ulemica
Chainosauria unnamed See also
- Idelesaurus
- Oudenodon
References
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