Therioherpeton is an extinct genus of small, carnivorous cynodonts belonging to the clade Prozostrodontia, which lived in what is now Brazil during the Late Triassic. Its type species is Therioherpeton cargnini. It was named in 1975 by the palaeontologists José Bonaparte and Mário Costa Barberena based on remains collected in the Hyperodapedon Assemblage Zone of the Santa Maria Formation in the Paraná Basin.[1][2]
| Therioherpeton Temporal range: Carnian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | Prozostrodontia |
| Family: | †Therioherpetidae Bonaparte & Barberena, 1975 |
| Genus: | †Therioherpeton Bonaparte & Barberena, 1975 |
| Species: | †T. cargnini
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| †Therioherpeton cargnini Bonaparte & Barberena, 1975
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References
edit- ^ Therioherpeton site, Faixa Nova at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Oliveira, É. V. (2006). "Reevaluation of Therioherpeton cargnini Bonaparte & Barberena, 1975 (Probainognathia, Therioherpetidae) from the Upper Triassic of Brazil" (PDF). Geodiversitas. 28 (3): 447–465.
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