Novocynodon

Novocynodon Temporal range: Middle Permian
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	†Novocynodon Ivachnenko, 2012
Type species
†Novocynodon kutorgai Ivachnenko, 2012

Novocynodon is an extinct genus of therapsids from the Middle Permian of Russia. Fossils have been found in Alexandrovsky District, Orenburg Oblast. The type and only species is Novocynodon kutorgai.^[1] It was classified as a thrinaxodontid cynodont when first described in 2012, but this was disputed by Kammerer (2014), who argued that it might instead be a juvenile anomodont or dinocephalian.^[2]

References

1. Ivakhnenko, M. F. (2012). "Permian Cynodontia (Theromorpha) of Eastern Europe". Paleontological Journal. 46 (2): 199–207. doi:10.1134/S0031030112020062.
2. Kammerer, C. F. (2014). "Theriodontia: Introduction". Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida: 165–169. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6841-3_10.