Protheriodon
| Protheriodon | |
|---|---|
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| Skull | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida
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| Clade: | Cynodontia
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| Clade: | Probainognathia |
| Genus: | †Protheriodon Bonaparte et al., 2006 |
| Species: | †P. estudianti
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| Binomial name | |
| †Protheriodon estudianti Bonaparte et al., 2006
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Protheriodon is an extinct genus of
Brasilodontidae.[2] More recent studies have however recovered it in a more basal position than other brasilodontids, just outside Prozostrodontia.[2][3]
Cladogram from Martinelli et al., 2017:[3]
References
- ^ Bonaparte, J. F., Soares, M. B. & Schultz, C. L. (2006), "A new non-mammalian cynodont from the Middle Triassic of southern Brazil and its implications for the ancestry of mammals", in Harris H. D., Lucas S. G., Spielmann J. A., Lockley M. G., Milner A. R. C. & Kirkland J. L. (eds.), The Triassic-Jurassic terrestrial transition, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 37, p.599-607
- ^ PMID 27706191.
- ^ .