Neotherapsida
The Neotherapsida are a clade of therapsids. The clade includes anomodonts and the more derived theriodonts, which include mammals.
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Oligokyphus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Eutherapsida |
Clade: | Neotherapsida Hopson, 1999 |
Subgroups | |
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Distribution
Permian
In the Permian geological period, Neotherapsida lived in Germany, India, Madagascar, Niger, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States in Texas, and Zambia.[3]
Severodvinian
In the Severodvinian age of the Tatarian stage of the Permian time period, Neotherapsida lived in Russia.[3][4]
Triassic
In the Triassic, Neotherapsida lived in Antarctica, Argentina, Brazil, China, Germany, Lesotho, Morocco, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania, and United States in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.[3]
Classification
The Neotherapsida were named and classified as a subgroup of the clade Eutherapsida by James Allen Hopson in 1999.[3][5]
Relatives
Taxonomy
Anomodontia
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- SUBORDER ANOMODONTIA
- (unranked)Venyukoviamorpha
- Family Otsheridae
- Family Venyukoviidae
- Infraorder Dromasauria
- Family Galeopidae
- Infraorder Dicynodontia
- Family Endothiodontidae
- Family Eodicynodontidae
- Superfamily Kingorioidea
- Family Kingoriidae
- Diictodontia
- Superfamily Emydopoidea
- Family Cistecephalidae
- Family Emydopidae
- Superfamily Robertoidea
- Family Diictodontidae
- Family Robertiidae
- Superfamily Emydopoidea
- Pristerodontia
- Family Aulacocephalodontidae
- Family Dicynodontidae
- Family Kannemeyeriidae
- Family Lystrosauridae
- Family Oudenodontidae
- Family Pristerodontidae
- Family Shansiodontidae
- Family Stahleckeriidae
- (unranked)Venyukoviamorpha
See also
References
- The Paleobiology Database: Anomodontia
- The Paleobiology Database: Theriodontia
- The Paleobiology Database: Neotherapsida
- Palæos Archived 2010-01-04 at the Wayback Machine
- J.A. Hopson. 1999. "Therapsids". Encyclopedia of Paleontology 2: 1256-1266