Chiniquodontidae
Chiniquodontidae is an extinct family of meat-eating advanced mammal-like reptiles (therapsids) that lived during the Upper Triassic of South America and perhaps Europe. A further possible representative, Aleodon, has been identified from the Middle Triassic of Africa. The family is thought to have been reasonably closely related to the ancestors of mammals.
| Chiniquodontidae Temporal range: Middle Triassic - Early Jurassic | |
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| Probelesodon | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | Chiniquodontoidea |
| Family: | †Chiniquodontidae |
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They ranged in size from tiny Gaumia (should it be a chiniquodontid) to the dog-sized Belesodon. Other fairly closely related creatures are known as Eoraetia, from the Upper Triassic of Europe, and the rather indeterminate Kunminia, from the Lower Jurassic of China.
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