Ictidodon

Ictidodon
Temporal range: Late Permian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: †Therocephalia
Superfamily: †Baurioidea
Genus: †
Broom, 1925
Type species
†Ictidodon agilis
Broom, 1925

Ictidodon is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa. The type species Ictidodon agilis was named by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1925.[1] Broom classified Ictidodon in the Scaloposauridae, a group of small-bodied therocephalians that are now thought to be juvenile forms of larger therocephalians. Ictidodon and many other scaloposaurids are now classified as basal members of the clade Baurioidea.[2]

References

  1. ^ Boonstra, L.D. (1954). "XXVII.—A Scaloposaurid from the Tapinocephalus-zone". Journal of Natural History. Series 12. 7 (74): 153–157. doi:10.1080/00222935408651711.
  2. ^ 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.


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