Eutherocephalia Temporal range: Late Permian-Middle Triassic,
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Life restoration of the eutherocephalian Moschorhinus preying on the dicynodont Lystosaurus. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | †Therocephalia |
Clade: | †Scylacosauria |
Clade: | †Eutherocephalia Hopson and Barghusen, 1986 |
Families and genera | |
Eutherocephalia ("true beast head") is an extinct clade of advanced therocephalian therapsids. Eutherocephalians are distinguished from the lycosuchids and scylacosaurids, two early therocephalian families. While lycosuchids and scyalosaurids became extinct by the end of the Permian period, eutherocephalians survived the Permian–Triassic extinction event. The group eventually became extinct in the Middle Triassic.