| Cryptodontia Temporal range: Middle Permian - Late Permian | |
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| Skull of Oudenodon latirostris | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Clade: | Synapsida | 
| Clade: | Therapsida | 
| Suborder: | †Anomodontia | 
| Clade: | †Dicynodontia | 
| Clade: | †Bidentalia | 
| Clade: | †Cryptodontia Owen, 1860 | 
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Cryptodontia is a group of dicynodont therapsids that includes the families Geikiidae, Oudenodontidae, and Rhachiocephalidae. It was first named in 1860 by English paleontologist Richard Owen. Owen intended Cryptodontia to be a family, and the name was later changed to "Cryptodontidae" to reflect this ranking. The name Cryptodontia was restored in 2009 when it was redefined as a larger clade containing several families of dicynodonts.[1]
Classification
Below is a cladogram from Kammerer et al. (2011) showing the phylogenetic placement of Cryptodontia:
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References
- ↑ Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D. (2009). "A proposed higher taxonomy of anomodont therapsids" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2018: 1–24.
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