Chiniquodon

Chiniquodon
Temporal range: Carnian
~235–221.5 Ma
Fossil of C. theotonicus in the Museum of Paleontology, Tuebingen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Family: †Chiniquodontidae
Genus: †Chiniquodon
von Huene 1936
Type species
†Chiniquodon theotonicus
Species
  • †C. kalanoro Kammerer et al., 2010
  • †C. kitchingi (Texeira, 1982)
  • †C. omaruruensis Mocke, Gaetano & Abdala, 2020
  • †C. sanjuanensis (Martinez & Forster, 1996)
  • †C. theotonicus von Huene, 1936
Synonyms
  • Belesodon von Huene, 1936
  • Probelesodon Romer, 1969
Life reconstruction of C. theotonicus

Chiniquodon is an extinct genus of carnivorous cynodonts, which lived during the Late Triassic (Carnian) in South America (Argentina and Brazil) and Africa (Namibia and Madagascar). Chiniquodon was closely related to the genus Aleodon,[1] and close to the ancestry of mammals.

Other contemporaries included early dinosaurs. As both groups filled a similar ecological niche, fairly large therapsid hunters such as Chiniquodon may have been outcompeted by dinosaurs.

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