Epicynodontia
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Epicynodontia is a clade of cynodont therapsids that includes most cynodonts, such as galesaurids, thrinaxodontids, and Eucynodontia (including mammals). It was erected as a stem-based taxon by Hopson and Kitching (2001) and defined as the most inclusive clade containing Mammalia and excluding Procynosuchus, a Late Permian genus that is one of the most basal cynodonts.
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- Parent taxon
- Cynodontia
- Image
- Thrinaxodon Lionhinus.jpg
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- taxon name
- Epicynodontia
- start time
- 260000000-
- temporal range start
- Lopingian
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Epicynodontia is a clade of cynodont therapsids that includes most cynodonts, such as galesaurids, thrinaxodontids, and Eucynodontia (including mammals). It was erected as a stem-based taxon by Hopson and Kitching (2001) and defined as the most inclusive clade containing Mammalia and excluding Procynosuchus, a Late Permian genus that is one of the most basal cynodonts.
Below is a cladogram from Pusch et al. (2023) showing one hypothesis of cynodont relationships:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Epicynodontia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.