Choerosaurus
| Choerosaurus Temporal range:
Late Permian | |
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| 3D-rendered skull | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida
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| Clade: | †Therocephalia |
| Superfamily: | †Baurioidea |
| Genus: | †Choerosaurus Haughton, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| †Choerosaurus dejageri Haughton, 1929
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Choerosaurus is an extinct
Late Permian of South Africa. The type species Choerosaurus dejageri was named by South African paleontologist Sidney H. Haughton from the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone
in 1929.
Choerosaurus is similar in appearance to occiput) is high and the canine teeth are thick and shortened. Choerosaurus also has teeth that are ankylothecodont, meaning that they are fused to the bone of the jaw and would not have been replaced when it was alive.[1]
Choerosaurus was traditionally classified in the Scalopodontia, a group of small therocephalians. Scalopodontians are now thought to be a
phylogenetic analysis.[2]
References
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