Eutheriodonts Temporal range: Middle Permian-Holocene,
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Life restoration of the therocephalian Microgomphodon | |
Life restoration of the cynodont Tritylodon | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Theriodontia |
Clade: | Eutheriodontia Hopson & Barghusen, 1986 |
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Eutheriodontia is a clade of therapsids which appear during the Middle Permian and which includes therocephalians and cynodonts, this latter group including mammals and related forms.
With the dicynodonts, they form one of two lineages of therapsids that survived the End-Permian extinction and which diversified again during the Triassic, before the majority of them disappeared before or during the Triassic–Jurassic extinction, except for a lineage of cynodonts that later gave rise to mammals.