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Dicynodontia, the Glossary

Dicynodontia is an extinct clade of anomodonts, an extinct type of non-mammalian therapsid.^[1]

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Dicynodonts
Guadalupian first appearances

Andrew Geddes Bain

Andrew Geddes Bain (baptised 11 June 1797 – 20 October 1864), was a Cape Colony geologist, road engineer, palaeontologist and explorer.

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Anomodontia is an extinct group of non-mammalian therapsids from the Permian and Triassic periods. Dicynodontia and Anomodontia are Guadalupian first appearances, late Triassic extinctions and taxa named by Richard Owen.

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Archosauromorpha

Archosauromorpha (Greek for "ruling lizard forms") is a clade of diapsid reptiles containing all reptiles more closely related to archosaurs (such as crocodilians and dinosaurs, including birds) rather than lepidosaurs (such as tuataras, lizards, and snakes). Dicynodontia and Archosauromorpha are Guadalupian first appearances.

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Asian elephant

The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), also known as the Asiatic elephant, is a species of elephant distributed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India in the west to Borneo in the east, and Nepal in the north to Sumatra in the south.

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Aulacephalodon

Aulacephalodon ("furrow-head tooth") is an extinct genus of medium-sized dicynodonts, or non-mammalian synapsids, that lived during late Permian period.

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Baurusuchidae

Baurusuchidae is a Gondwanan family of mesoeucrocodylians that lived during the Late Cretaceous.

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Bidentalia

Bidentalia is a group of dicynodont therapsids. Dicynodontia and Bidentalia are Guadalupian first appearances.

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Brachyprosopus

Brachyprosopus is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid from the middle Permian Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone in the Abrahamskraal Formation belonging to the Beaufort Group of the Karoo Basin, South Africa. Dicynodontia and Brachyprosopus are dicynodonts.

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Browsing (herbivory)

Browsing is a type of herbivory in which a herbivore (or, more narrowly defined, a folivore) feeds on leaves, soft shoots, or fruits of high-growing, generally woody plants such as shrubs.

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Carnian

The Carnian (less commonly, Karnian) is the lowermost stage of the Upper Triassic Series (or earliest age of the Late Triassic Epoch).

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Ceratopsia

Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (or; Greek: "horned faces") is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic.

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Cistecephalidae

Cistecephalidae is an extinct family of dicynodont therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa, India and Zambia.

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Clade

In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.

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Cladogram

A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.

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Colobodectes

Colobodectes is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone in the Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), South Africa. Dicynodontia and Colobodectes are dicynodonts.

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Coprolite

A coprolite (also known as a coprolith) is fossilized feces.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Cryptodontia

Cryptodontia is a group of dicynodont therapsids that includes the families Geikiidae, Oudenodontidae, and Rhachiocephalidae. Dicynodontia and Cryptodontia are dicynodonts and Guadalupian first appearances.

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Cynodontia

Cynodontia is a clade of eutheriodont therapsids that first appeared in the Late Permian (approximately 260 mya), and extensively diversified after the Permian–Triassic extinction event. Dicynodontia and Cynodontia are taxa named by Richard Owen.

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Dicynodon

Dicynodon ("two dog-teeth") is a genus of dicynodont therapsid that flourished during the Upper Permian period. Dicynodontia and dicynodon are taxa named by Richard Owen.

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Diictodon

Diictodon is an extinct genus of pylaecephalid dicynodont that lived during the Late Permian period, approximately 255 million years ago. Dicynodontia and Diictodon are dicynodonts.

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Dinodontosaurus

Dinodontosaurus (meaning "terrible-toothed lizard") is a genus of dicynodont therapsid. Dicynodontia and Dinodontosaurus are late Triassic extinctions.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. Dicynodontia and Dinosaur are taxa named by Richard Owen.

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Diprotodontidae

Diprotodontidae is an extinct family of large herbivorous marsupials, endemic to Australia and New Guinea during the Oligocene through Pleistocene periods from 28.4 million to 40,000 years ago.

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Dromasauria

"Dromasaurs" are an artificial grouping of small anomodont therapsids from the Middle and Late Permian of South Africa.

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Edwin H. Colbert

Edwin Harris "Ned" Colbert (September 28, 1905 – November 15, 2001)O'Connor, Anahad,, The New York Times, November 25, 2001.

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Emydopidae

Emydopidae is a family of dicynodont therapsids.

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Emydopoidea

Emydopoidea is a group of Late Permian dicynodont therapsids.

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Endothiodontia

Endothiodontia is a clade of dicynodont therapsids that includes the family Endothiodontidae and possibly the family Eumantellidae. Dicynodontia and Endothiodontia are dicynodonts.

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Eodicynodon

Eodicynodon (eo-, early or primitive, dicynodont) is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsids, a highly diverse group of herbivorous synapsids that were widespread during the middle-late Permian and early Triassic. Dicynodontia and Eodicynodon are dicynodonts.

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Evolution of mammals

The evolution of mammals has passed through many stages since the first appearance of their synapsid ancestors in the Pennsylvanian sub-period of the late Carboniferous period.

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Evolutionary radiation

An evolutionary radiation is an increase in taxonomic diversity that is caused by elevated rates of speciation, that may or may not be associated with an increase in morphological disparity.

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Fossorial

A fossorial animal is one that is adapted to digging and which lives primarily (but not solely) underground.

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Geikiidae

Geikiidae is a family of Late Permian dicynodonts.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Geological Society of London

The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom.

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Gondwana

Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.

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Guadalupian

The Guadalupian is the second and middle series/epoch of the Permian.

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Hair

Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis.

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Haversian canal

Haversian canals (sometimes canals of Havers, osteonic canals or central canals) are a series of microscopic tubes in the outermost region of bone called cortical bone.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.

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Ilium (bone)

The ilium (ilia) is the uppermost and largest region of the coxal bone, and appears in most vertebrates including mammals and birds, but not bony fish.

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Induan

The Induan is the first age of the Early Triassic epoch in the geologic timescale, or the lowest stage of the Lower Triassic series in chronostratigraphy.

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Kannemeyeriiformes

Kannemeyeriiformes is a group of large-bodied Triassic dicynodonts.

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Kingoriidae

Kingoriidae is an extinct family of dicynodont therapsids.

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Kombuisia

Kombuisia is a genus of dicynodont from Early to Middle Triassic (Induan to Anisian) of South Africa and Antarctica.

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Ladinian

The Ladinian is a stage and age in the Middle Triassic series or epoch.

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Lanthanostegus

Lanthanostegus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids from the Capitanian ''Tapinocephalus'' Assemblage Zone, Koonap Formation (Beaufort Group) of South Africa.

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Late Triassic

The Late Triassic is the third and final epoch of the Triassic Period in the geologic time scale, spanning the time between Ma and Ma (million years ago).

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Lisowicia

Lisowicia is an extinct genus of giant dicynodont synapsid that lived in what is now Poland during the late Norian or earliest Rhaetian age of the Late Triassic Period, about 210–205 million years ago.

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Lopingian

The Lopingian is the uppermost series/last epoch of the Permian.

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Lystrosauridae

Lystrosauridae is a family of dicynodont therapsids from the Permian and Triassic time periods.

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Lystrosaurus

Lystrosaurus ('shovel lizard'; proper Greek is lístron ‘tool for leveling or smoothing, shovel, spade, hoe’) is an extinct genus of herbivorous dicynodont therapsids from the late Permian and Early Triassic epochs (around 250 million years ago). Dicynodontia and Lystrosaurus are dicynodonts.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Myosauridae

Myosauridae is a family of dicynodont therapsids.

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Myosaurus

Myosaurus (Greek for “mice-like lizard,” with mys- meaning mouse, and -sauros meaning lizard) is a genus of dicynodont synapsids.

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Norian

The Norian is a division of the Triassic Period.

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Nyaphulia

Nyaphulia is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid from the middle Permian of South Africa, containing only the type species N. oelofseni. Dicynodontia and Nyaphulia are dicynodonts.

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Olenekian

In the geologic timescale, the Olenekian is an age in the Early Triassic epoch; in chronostratigraphy, it is a stage in the Lower Triassic series.

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Oudenodon

Oudenodon is an extinct genus of dicynodont.

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Paleocene

The Paleocene, or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago (mya).

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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 251.902 Mya.

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Permian–Triassic extinction event

Approximately 251.9 million years ago, the Permian–Triassic (P–T, P–Tr) extinction event (PTME; also known as the Late Permian extinction event, the Latest Permian extinction event, the End-Permian extinction event, and colloquially as the Great Dying) forms the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, and with them the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicynodontia

Also known as Dicynodont, Dicynodonta, Dicynodonts.

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Dicynodontia, the Glossary

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See also

Dicynodonts

Guadalupian first appearances

References