Pristerodontia

Pristerodontia Temporal range: Late Permian – Late Triassic
Skull of Oudenodon latirostris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Suborder:	†Anomodontia
Clade:	†Dicynodontia
Parvorder:	†Pristerodontia Cluver and King, 1983
Clades
Dicynodontoidea

Pristerodontia is a group of dicynodont therapsids that includes cryptodontids, geikiids, lystrosaurids, kannemeyeriids, and other related forms. Pristerodontians were one of the few groups of dicynodonts to survive the Permian–Triassic extinction event, diversifying in the Triassic.^[1]

Phylogeny

Pristerodontia in a cladogram modified from Angielczyk and Rubidge (2010) showing the phylogenetic relationships of Dicynodontia:^[2]

Dicynodontia

Eodicynodon Colobodectes Lanthanostegus  Pylaecephalidae  Robertia Diictodon Prosictodon Chelydontops Endothiodon Pristerodon  Emydopoidea  Emydops Myosaurus  Kingoriidae  Dicynodontoides Kombuisia  Cistecephalidae  Cistecephalus Cistecephaloides Kawingasaurus  Pristerodontia  Interpresosaurus Elph Rhachiocephalus  Cryptodontidae  Oudenodon Tropidostoma Australobarbarus  Geikiidae  Odontocyclops Idelesaurus Aulacephalodon Geikia Pelanomodon  Dicynodontoidea  Katumbia Delectosaurus Dicynodon Lystrosauridae Kannemeyeriiformes Vivaxosaurus

References

1. Maisch, M.W. (2002). "A new basal lystrosaurid dicynodont from the Upper Permian of South Africa". Palaeontology. 45 (2): 343–359. Bibcode:2002Palgy..45..343M. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00240.
2. Kenneth D. Angielczyk; Bruce S. Rubidge (2010). "A new pylaecephalid dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, Middle Permian of South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (5): 1396–1409. Bibcode:2010JVPal..30.1396A. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.501447. S2CID 129846697.