| Etjoia Temporal range: Middle Triassic–Late Triassic
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| Skull of Etjoia in left lateral view. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Family: | †Traversodontidae |
| Genus: | †Etjoia Hendrickx et al., 2020 |
| Species: | †E. dentitransitus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Etjoia dentitransitus Hendrickx et al., 2020
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Etjoia is an extinct genus of traversodontid cynodonts that lived during the Middle Triassic or Late Triassic period in southern Africa.[1] This medium-sized omnivorous cynognathian provides important information on the dental evolution of early diverging gomphodonts and traversodontids.
- ^ Hendrickx, C.; Gaetano, L. C.; Choiniere, J. N.; Mocke, E.; Abdala, F. (2020). "A new traversodontid cynodont with a peculiar postcanine dentition from the Middle/Late Triassic of Namibia and dental evolution in basal gomphodonts". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18 (20): 1669–1706. doi:10.1080/14772019.2020.1804470. S2CID 221838726.