| Scylacosauridae Temporal range: Middle Permian–Late Permian,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Therocephalia |
| Clade: | †Scylacosauria |
| Family: | †Scylacosauridae Broom, 1903 |
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Scylacosauridae is an extinct family of therocephalian therapsids. Scylacosaurids lived during the Permian period and were among the most basal therocephalians.[3] The family was named by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1903.[4] Scylacosaurids have long snouts and unusual saber-like canine teeth.[5]
- ^ Suchkova, Y. A.; Golubev, V. K.; Shumov, I. S. (2022). "New Primitive Therocephalians from the Permian of Eastern Europe". Paleontological Journal. 56 (11): 1419–1427. doi:10.1134/S0031030122110181.
- ^ Kammerer, C. E. (2023). "Revision of the Scylacosauridae (Therapsida: Therocephalia)". Palaeontologia africana. 56: 51–87. ISSN 2410-4418.
- ^ Huttenlocker, A. (2009). "An investigation into the cladistic relationships and monophyly of therocephalian therapsids (Amniota: Synapsida)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 157 (4): 865–891. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00538.x.
- ^ Broom, R. (1903). "On the classification of the theriodonts and their allies". Report of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science. 1: 286–294.
- ^ Valkenburgh, B. van; Jenkins, I. (2002). "Evolutionary patterns in the history of Permo-Triassic and Cenozoic synapsid predators" (PDF). In Kowalewski, M.; Kelley, P.H. (eds.). The Fossil Record of Predation. Vol. 8. Paleontological Society Special Publications. pp. 267–289. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-17.