Oudenodon Temporal range:
Late Permian
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O. baini skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | † Anomodontia |
Clade: | † Dicynodontia |
Family: | † Oudenodontidae |
Genus: | †
Oudenodon Owen, 1860 |
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Oudenodon is an extinct genus of dicynodont. It was common throughout southern Africa during the Late Permian. Several species of Oudenodon are known. [2] Both O. bainii, the type species, and O. grandis are known from South Africa. [3] [4] Specimens of O. luangwensis have been found from Zambia. [5] One species, O. sakamenensis, is the only Permian therapsid yet described from Madagascar. [6] It is the type genus of the family Oudenodontidae, which includes members such as Tropidostoma.
Oudenodon Temporal range:
Late Permian
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O. baini skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | † Anomodontia |
Clade: | † Dicynodontia |
Family: | † Oudenodontidae |
Genus: | †
Oudenodon Owen, 1860 |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
Genus synonymy
Species synonymy
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Oudenodon is an extinct genus of dicynodont. It was common throughout southern Africa during the Late Permian. Several species of Oudenodon are known. [2] Both O. bainii, the type species, and O. grandis are known from South Africa. [3] [4] Specimens of O. luangwensis have been found from Zambia. [5] One species, O. sakamenensis, is the only Permian therapsid yet described from Madagascar. [6] It is the type genus of the family Oudenodontidae, which includes members such as Tropidostoma.