| Smilodonterpeton Temporal range: Late Triassic
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
| Family: | †Procolophonidae |
| Genus: | †Smilodonterpeton Skinner, Whiteside & Benton, 2020 |
| Type species | |
| †Smilodonterpeton ruthinensis Skinner, Whiteside & Benton, 2020
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Smilodonterpeton is an extinct genus of procolophonid from the Late Triassic of the United Kingdom. It contains a single species, Smilodonterpeton ruthinensis.[1]
- ^ Skinner, Matthew; Whiteside, David I.; Benton, Michael J. (2020-10-01). "Late Triassic island dwarfs? Terrestrial tetrapods of the Ruthin fissure (South Wales, UK) including a new genus of procolophonid". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 131 (5): 535–561. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2020.04.005. ISSN 0016-7878. S2CID 221878712.