''Novocynodon'' is an extinct

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s from the

Middle Permian The Guadalupian is the second and middle series/epoch of the Permian. The Guadalupian was preceded by the Cisuralian and followed by the Lopingian. It is named after the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico and Texas, and dates between 272.95 ± 0. ...

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. Fossils have been found in

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. The

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and only species is ''Novocynodon kutorgai''. It was classified as a

thrinaxodontid Thrinaxodontidae is an extinct family of cynodonts that includes the genera '' Thrinaxodon'', '' Nanictosaurus'', and '' Nanocynodon'', and possibly ''Bolotridon'', '' Novocynodon'' and ''Platycraniellus''. All thrinaxodontids share a bony secon ...

cynodont The cynodonts () (clade Cynodontia) are a clade of eutheriodont therapsids that first appeared in the Late Permian (approximately 260 mya), and extensively diversified after the Permian–Triassic extinction event. Cynodonts had a wide variety ...

when first described in 2012, but this was disputed by Kammerer (2014), who argued that it might instead be a juvenile

anomodont Anomodontia is an extinct group of non-mammalian therapsids from the Permian and Triassic periods. By far the most speciose group are the dicynodonts, a clade of beaked, tusked herbivores.Chinsamy-Turan, A. (2011) ''Forerunners of Mammals: Ra ...

or dinocephalian.

References

Prehistoric therapsid genera Guadalupian synapsids of Europe Permian Russia Fossils of Russia Fossil taxa described in 2012 {{paleo-therapsid-stub