Charassognathidae is an extinct family of basal

cynodont Cynodontia () is a clade of eutheriodont therapsids that first appeared in the Late Permian (approximately 260 Megaannum, mya), and extensively diversified after the Permian–Triassic extinction event. Mammals are cynodonts, as are their extin ...

s known from the

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South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

and

Zambia Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in South-Central Africa or Southern Africa. It is bor ...

. It was named in 2016 by the palaeontologist Christian F. Kammerer, who defined it as all taxa more closely related to '' Charassognathus gracilis'' than to ''

Dvinia prima ''Dvinia'' is an extinct genus of cynodonts found in the Salarevo Formation of Sokolki on the Northern Dvina River near Kotlas in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It is the only known member of the family Dviniidae. Its fossil remains date from th ...

'', '' Galesaurus planiceps'' or '' Procynosuchus delaharpeae''. The family contains the genera ''Charassognathus'', '' Abdalodon'' and '' Nshimbodon'', with the latter two making up the subfamily Abdalodontinae.

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Cynodontia Prehistoric therapsid families Taxa named by Christian F. Kammerer Permian South Africa Fossils of South Africa Fossils of Zambia {{Paleo-cynodont-stub