''Ictidognathus'' is an extinct
genus
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of
therocephalian
Therocephalia is an extinct clade of therapsids (mammals and their close extinct relatives) from the Permian and Triassic periods. The therocephalians ("beast-heads") are named after their large skulls, which, along with the structure of their te ...
therapsids that lived in
South Africa
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during the
Late Permian
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.
[Broom, R., 1911b, On some New South African Permian Reptiles: ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'', 1911, p. 1073-1082.] Fossils are found in the
''Tropidostoma'' and
''Cistecephalus'' Assemblage Zones of the
Beaufort Group
The Beaufort Group is the third of the main subdivisions of the Karoo Supergroup in South Africa. It is composed of a lower Adelaide Subgroup and an upper Tarkastad Subgroup. It follows conformably after the Ecca Group and unconformably under ...
in the
Western Cape
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.
See also
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List of therapsids
This list of therapsids is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all Genus, genera that have ever been included in the Therapsida excluding mammals and purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also gene ...
References
External links
The main groups of non-mammalian synapsidsat Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
Baurioidea
Therocephalia genera
Lopingian genus first appearances
Lopingian genus extinctions
Lopingian synapsids of Africa
Permian South Africa
Fossils of South Africa
Fossil taxa described in 1911
Taxa named by Robert Broom
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