Dicynodontoidea Temporal range: Late Permian - Late Triassic |
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Life restoration of "Dicynodon" trautscholdi | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | Therapsida |
Infraorder: | †Dicynodontia |
Stem group: | †Bidentalia |
Superfamily: |
†Dicynodontoidea Cope, 1871 |
Subgroups | |
Dicynodontoidea is a superfamily of dicynodont therapsids that includes Lystrosauridae and Kannemeyeriiformes. It was first named by American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in 1871 and later described under a phylogenetic definition in 2009.