''Caodeyao'' (in reference to the village of Caodeyao) is a genus of

therocephalian Therocephalia is an extinct suborder of eutheriodont therapsids (mammals and their close relatives) from the Permian and Triassic. The therocephalians ("beast-heads") are named after their large skulls, which, along with the structure of their te ...

that lived in what is now China during the late

Permian The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.9 Mya. It is the last period of the Paleoz ...

. It was found in the

Naobaogou Formation The Naobaogou Formation is a geological formation in the Daqing Mountains of China. It is likely of Lopingian age. It consists of three rhythms of sediment, labelled members I-III primarily of purple siltstone Siltstone, also known as aleurol ...

. It contains one species, ''Caodeyao liuyufengi'', named in 2020 by Jun Liu and Fernando Abdala.

References

Eutherocephalians Therocephalia genera Lopingian synapsids of Asia Fossil taxa described in 2020 {{Paleo-therapsid-stub