Protheriodon

Protheriodon
Temporal range: Ladinian
~242–235 Ma
Skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Clade: Probainognathia
Genus: †Protheriodon
Bonaparte et al., 2006
Species:
†P. estudianti
Binomial name
†Protheriodon estudianti
Bonaparte et al., 2006

Protheriodon is an extinct genus of probainognathian cynodonts which existed in the Santa Maria Formation of the Paraná Basin in southeastern Brazil during the middle Triassic period. It contains the species Protheriodon estudianti.[1] It was first described by Argentine palaeontologist José Bonaparte, who assigned it to the family Brasilodontidae.[2] More recent studies have however recovered it in a more basal position than other brasilodontids, just outside Prozostrodontia.[2][3]

Cladogram from Martinelli et al., 2017:[3]

Probainognathia
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