Dicynodontoidea

Dicynodontoidea
Dicynodontoidea
Temporal range: Late Permian - Late Triassic
Life restoration of "Dicynodon" trautscholdi
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Infraorder: Dicynodontia
clade: Pristerodontia
Superfamily: Dicynodontoidea
Cope, 1871
Subgroups
  • Dicynodontidae
  • Lystrosauridae
  • Kanemmeyeriiformes

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

  1. ^ Kammerer, C.F.; and Angielczyk, K.D. (2009). "A proposed higher taxonomy of anomodont therapsids". Zootaxa 2018: 1–24. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/z02018p024f.pdf.