Chiniquodontoidea

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Chiniquodontoidea Fossil range: Late Triassic - Late Jurassic (non-mammalian)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Synapsida Order: Therapsida Suborder: Cynodontia Infraorder: Eucynodontia (unranked) Chiniquodontoidea Huene, 1936
Groups
Chiniquodontidae Mammaliaformes Therioherpetidae Trithelodontidae

Chiniquodontoidea is a clade of cynodonts that is defined as including all probainognathians closer to mammals than to Probainognathus which is the more primitive form in Probainognathia. To Chiniquodontoidea pertain, beside families Chiniquodontidae, Therioherpetidae, Tritheledontidae, and the more diverse clade Mammaliaformes, an array of basal forms enumerated in the classification scheme below, following works by Rubidge & Sidor (2001), Martinelli et al. (2005) and Sidor & Hancox (2006).

[edit] Phylogeny

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Chiniquodontoidea	unnamed  ? Eoraetia unnamed unnamed  ? Kunminia  ? “Hahnia”  ? Maubeugia  Chiniquodontidae   ? Dromatheriinae  Chiniquodontinae unnamed unnamed  Therioherpetidae unnamed ?Brasilodon ?Brasilitherium unnamed unnamed  Riograndia  Trithelodontidae  Mammaliamorpha   Prozostrodon  Mammaliaformes

[edit] References

• Eucynodontia @ Mikko's Phylogeny Archive