Scylacosauria
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Scylacosauria is a clade of therocephalian therapsids. It includes the basal family Scylacosauridae and the infraorder Eutherocephalia. Scylacosauridae and Eutherocephalia form this clade to the exclusion of Lycosuchidae, the most basal therocephalian family. Thus, Scylacosauria includes all therocephalians except lycosuchids. Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic position of Scylacosauria:
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 14 inbound references to Scylacosauria, and connects out to Therapsida, Baurioidea and Karenites.
Vinony files it under Guadalupian first appearances, Middle Triassic extinctions and Tetrapod unranked clades.
Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Therocephalia
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- Scylacosauria
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Scylacosauria is a clade of therocephalian therapsids. It includes the basal family Scylacosauridae and the infraorder Eutherocephalia. Scylacosauridae and Eutherocephalia form this clade to the exclusion of Lycosuchidae, the most basal therocephalian family. Thus, Scylacosauria includes all therocephalians except lycosuchids. Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic position of Scylacosauria:
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scylacosauria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.