| Cricodon Temporal range: Early Triassic–Middle Triassic
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| The partial skeletal reconstruction of Cricodon metabolus with a tool as reference for size. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | †Neogomphodontia |
| Genus: | †Cricodon A. W. Crompton, 1955 |
| Type species | |
| †C. metabolus | |
Cricodon is an extinct genus of trirachodontid cynodonts that lived during the Early Triassic and Middle Triassic periods of Africa.[1][2] A. W. Crompton named Cricodon based on the ring-like arrangement of the cuspules on the crown of a typical postcanine tooth.[3] The epithet of the type species, C. metabolus, indicates the change in structure of certain postcanines resulting from replacement.[3]
- ^ Abdala, F., J. Neveling, and J. Welman. 2006. A new trirachodontid cynodont from the lower levels of the Burgersdorp Formation (Lower Triassic) of the Beaufort Group, South Africa and the cladistic relationships of Gondwanan gomphodonts. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 147:383–413.
- ^ Hopson, J. A. 2005. A juvenile gomphodont cynodont specimen from the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone of South Africa: implications for the origin of gomphodont postcanine morphology. Palaeontologia Africana 41:53–66.
- ^ a b Crompton, A. W. 1955. On some Triassic cynodonts from Tanganyika. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 125(3–4):617–669.