Scylacosauridae

Scylacosauridae
Temporal range: Middle - Late Permian
Life restoration of Scylacosaurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Clade: Eutheriodontia
Suborder: Therocephalia
Infraorder: Scylacosauria
Family: Scylacosauridae
Broom, 1903

Scylacosauridae is a family of therocephalian therapsids. Scylacosaurids lived during the Permian period and were among the most basal therocephalians.[1] The family was named by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1903.[2] Scylacosaurids have long snouts and unusual saber-like canine teeth.[3]

References

  1. Huttenlocker, A. (2009). "An investigation into the cladistic relationships and monophyly of therocephalian therapsids (Amniota: Synapsida)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157 (4): 865–891. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00538.x.
  2. Broom, R. (1903). "On the classification of the theriodonts and their allies". Report of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science 1: 286–294.
  3. Valkenburgh, B. van; Jenkins, I. (2002). "Evolutionary patterns in the history of Permo-Triassic and Cenozoic synapsid predators" (PDF). In Kowalewski, M.; and Kelley, P.H. (eds.). The Fossil Record of Predation 8. Paleontological Society Special Publications. pp. 267–289.

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