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Pylaecephalidae, the Glossary

Pylaecephalidae is a family of dicynodont therapsids that includes Diictodon, Robertia, and Prosictodon from the Permian of South Africa.^[1]

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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Dicynodontia

Dicynodontia is an extinct clade of anomodonts, an extinct type of non-mammalian therapsid. Pylaecephalidae and Dicynodontia are dicynodonts.

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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. Pylaecephalidae and Diictodon are dicynodonts.

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Eosimops

Eosimops is an extinct genus of pylaecephalid dicynodonts. Pylaecephalidae and Eosimops are dicynodonts.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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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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Prosictodon

Prosictodon is an extinct genus of pylaecephalid dicynodont from Middle Permian of South Africa. Pylaecephalidae and Prosictodon are anomodont stubs and dicynodonts.

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Robertia

Robertia is an extinct genus of small herbivorous dicynodonts from the Middle to Late Permian of South Africa, between 260 and 265 million years ago. Pylaecephalidae and Robertia are dicynodonts.

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