Charassognathidae is an extinct family of basal cynodonts known from the Late Permian of South Africa and Zambia. It was named in 2016 by the palaeontologist Christian F. Kammerer, who defined it as all taxa more closely related to Charassognathus gracilis than to Dvinia prima, Galesaurus planiceps or Procynosuchus delaharpeae.[2] The family contains the genera Charassognathus, Abdalodon and Nshimbodon, with the latter two making up the subfamily Abdalodontinae.[1]
| Charassognathids Temporal range: Late Permian (Wuchiapingian),
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Family: | †Charassognathidae Kammerer, 2016 |
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References
edit- ^ a b Huttenlocker, Adam K.; Sidor, Christian A. (2020). "A basal nonmammaliaform cynodont from the Permian of Zambia and the origins of mammalian endocranial and postcranial anatomy". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: e1827413. doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1827413.
- ^ Kammerer, Christian F. (2016). "A new taxon of cynodont from the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone (upper Permian) of South Africa, and the early evolution of Cynodontia". Papers in Palaeontology. 2 (3): 387–397. doi:10.1002/spp2.1046.
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