| Impidens Temporal range:
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| Impidens hancoxi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Family: | †Trirachodontidae |
| Genus: | †Impidens Tolchard, Kammerer, Butler, Hendrickx, Benoit, Abdala, & Choiniere, 2021 |
| Type species | |
| Impidens hancoxi Tolchard, Kammerer, Butler, Hendrickx, Benoit, Abdala, & Choiniere, 2021
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Impidens[a] is an extinct genus of large omnivorous cynodont from the Triassic of South Africa and Antarctica. Its type and only species is Impidens hancoxi.[b] Impidens inhabited high-latitude environments of southern Gondwana during the Middle Triassic, where it was probably the apex predator.
- ^ a b Tolchard et al. 2021, p. 4.
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