Teratophon
| Teratophon | |
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| Fossil | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
| Family: | †Procolophonidae |
| Subfamily: | †Procolophoninae |
| Genus: | †Teratophon Modesto & Damiani, 2003 |
| Type species | |
| †Teratophon spinigenis (Gow, 1977a [originally Thelegnathus spinigenis])
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Teratophon is an
quadratojugal.[1]
Phylogeny
In their
phylogenetic analyses, Butler et al. (2023) defined Teratophon as a sister taxon to Procolophon and Thelerpeton or only to Procolophon within Procolophoninae. The results are shown in two cladograms below:[3]
Analyses 1 and 3: Strict consensus of 760 and 18 most parsimonious trees (MPTs).
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Analysis 2: Single MPT.
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