The Diictodontia were a group of

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Dicynodont Dicynodontia is an extinct clade of anomodonts, an extinct type of non-mammalian therapsid. Dicynodonts were herbivorous animals with a pair of tusks, hence their name, which means 'two dog tooth'. Members of the group possessed a horny, typicall ...

s from the

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and Triassic of

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. The clade was named a sub group of the group

Dicynodontia Dicynodontia is an extinct clade of anomodonts, an extinct type of non-mammalian therapsid. Dicynodonts were herbivorous animals with a pair of tusks, hence their name, which means 'two dog tooth'. Members of the group possessed a horny, typicall ...

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in 1988. Image:Diictodon-A72-03.jpg, A model of the

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Diictodon ''Diictodon'' is an extinct genus of pylaecephalid dicynodont. These mammal-like synapsids lived during the Late Permian period, approximately 255 million years ago. Fossils have been found in the ''Cistecephalus'' Assemblage Zone of the Mad ...

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Myosaurus ''Myosaurus'' is an extinct genus of dicynodont found primarily in Antarctica and South Africa. History The family Myosauridae is known only from fossilized skull specimens. The family is distinguished from other families in the infraorder Dic ...

'', an Emydopid Image:Diictodon.jpg, A ''Diictodon'' fossil

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5276469 Dicynodonts Guadalupian first appearances Lopingian extinctions