Eucynodontia
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| Eucynodontia Temporal range: Early Triassic-Holocene
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| Cynognathus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | Epicynodontia |
| Clade: | Eucynodontia Kemp, 1982 |
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Eucynodontia ("true dog teeth") is a clade of cynodont therapsids including mammals and most non-mammalian cynodonts. The oldest eucynodonts are known from the Early Triassic and possibly Late Permian. Eucynodontia includes two major subgroups, Cynognathia and Probainognathia.[1]
The clade was named by Thomas Kemp in 1982.[2]
In 2001, James Allen Hopson e.a. defined the clade Euynodontia as the least inclusive group containing Mammalia and Exaeretodon.[3]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Rubidge, B.S.; Sidor, C.A. (2001). "Evolutionary patterns among Permo-Triassic therapsids" (PDF). Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 32: 449–480. doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.32.081501.114113. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-21.
- ↑ T.S. Kemp. 1982. Mammal-like Reptiles and the Origin of Mammals 363 pp
- ↑ James A. Hopson and James W. Kitching, 2001, "A Probainognathian Cynodont from South Africa and the Phylogeny of Nonmammalian Cynodonts" pp 5-35 in: PARISH A. JENKINS, JR., MICHAEL D. SHAPIRO, AND TOMASZ OWERKOWICZ, EDITORS, STUDIES IN ORGANISMIC AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY IN HONOR OF A. W. CROMPTON Bullettin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Harvard University 156(1)
External links[edit | edit source]
- Eucynodontia at Wikipedia, the free Terran encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
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