Anteosauridae
| Anteosauridae | |
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| Life restoration of Titanophoneus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida
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| Suborder: | †Dinocephalia |
| Infraorder: | †Anteosauria |
| Family: | †Anteosauridae Boonstra, 1954 |
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Anteosauridae is an extinct
Description
Anteosaurids are characterized by very large pointed incisors and canines, bulbous spatulate (spoon shaped) postcanines, a very strongly upturned margin of the premaxilla, so the front of mouth curves strongly upwards, and a long, very robust lower jaw (Boonstra 1963).
Anteosaurids distinguished from
Classification
The subfamily
| Therapsida |
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References
Further reading
- Barghusen, H.R. (1975). "A review of fighting adaptation in dinocephalians (Reptilia, Therapsida)". Paleobiology. 12: 95–311.
- Boonstra, L. D. (1963). "Diversity within the South African Dinocephalia". S. Afr. J. Sci. 59: 196–206.
- ----- 1969, "The Fauna of the Tapincephalus Zone (Beaufort Beds of the Karoo)," Ann. S. Afr. Mus.56 (1) 1-73, pp. 35–38
- Carroll, R. L., 1988, Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co.
- Hopson, J.A. and Barghusen, H.R., 1986, An analysis of therapsid relationships in N Hotton, III, PD MacLean, JJ Roth and EC Roth, The Ecology and Biology of Mammal-like Reptiles, Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 83–106
- King, G.M., 1988, "Anomodontia" Part 17 C, Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology, Gutsav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart and New York,