Therochelonia
| Therochelonia Temporal range: Late Permian - Early Cretaceous |
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| Life restoration of Cistecephalus Cistecephalus microrhinus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Infraorder: | †Dicynodontia |
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†Therochelonia Seeley, 1894 |
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Therochelonia is a group of dicynodont therapsids. The group was named by British paleontologist Harry Seeley in 1894 and fell into disuse in the following century. Therochelonia was redefined as a node-based clade in 2009. It is defined as the last common ancestor of Cistecephalus microrhinus and Dicynodon lacerticeps, and all of its descendants. Below is a simplified cladogram from Kammerer et al. (2011) showing the phylogenetic placement of Therochelonia:
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