Gomphodontosuchinae Temporal range: Triassic | |
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Skull of the gomphodontosuchine Exaeretodon | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Family: | † Traversodontidae |
Subfamily: | † Gomphodontosuchinae Watson and Romer, 1956 |
Subgroups | |
See text. |
Gomphodontosuchinae is a subfamily of Triassic traversodontid cynodonts. It includes the genera Gomphodontosuchus (the type genus), Exaeretodon , [1] Santagnathus , [1] Siriusgnathus , [1] Menadon , Proexaeretodon, Protuberum , Ruberodon and Scalenodontoides . [2] [3]
Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic relationships of gomphodontosuchines from Kammerer et al. (2008): [4]