''Ictidosuchoides'' is an extinct

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of ictidosuchid

therocephalia 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 ...

ns.

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s have been found from the Karoo Basin in

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. The genus is known to have been one of the few therocephalians to have survived the Permian-Triassic extinction event in this area, although its numbers were quite low after the extinction.Ward, P. D., Botha, J., Buick, R., De Kock, M. O., Erwin, D. H., Garrison, G., Kirschvink, J. L., and Smith, R. (2005). Abrupt and gradual extinction among Late Permian land vertebrates in the Karoo Basin, South Africa. ''Science'' 307:709–714.

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The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
Ictidosuchids Therocephalia genera Lopingian genus first appearances Changhsingian genera Induan genera Early Triassic genus extinctions Lopingian synapsids of Africa Early Triassic synapsids of Africa Permian South Africa Triassic South Africa Fossils of South Africa Fossil taxa described in 1931 Taxa named by Robert Broom {{paleo-therapsid-stub

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