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Pampaphoneus

Pampaphoneus
Temporal range: Middle Permian, 260 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Therapsida
Suborder: Dinocephalia
Family: Anteosauridae
Subfamily: Syodontinae
Genus: Pampaphoneus
Cisneros et al., 2012
Type species
Pampaphoneus biccai
Cisneros et al., 2012

Pampaphoneus is an extinct genus of dinocephalians from the Middle Permian of Brazil. It is known from a well-preserved skull. The type species is Pampaphoneus biccai. Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic placement of Pampaphoneus from Cisneros et al. (2012):

Pampaphoneus biccai was closely related to Australosyodon

Biarmosuchus tener

Estemmenosuchus uralensis

Ulemosaurus svijagensis

Tapinocaninus pamelae

Archaeosyodon praeventor

Sinophoneus yumenensis

Titanophoneus adamanteus

Titanophoneus potens

Anteosaurus magnificus

Pampaphoneus biccai

Notosyodon gusevi

Syodon biarmicum

Australosyodon nyaphuli


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