Impidens Temporal range:
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Impidens hancoxi | |
Scientific classification | |
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.
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