| Hipposauridae Temporal range: Late Permian | |
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| Life restoration of Hipposaurus boonstrai | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | † Biarmosuchia |
| Family: | † Hipposauridae Romer, 1956 |
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Hipposauridae is an extinct family of biarmosuchian therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa. It includes the genus Hipposaurus , and possibly the genera Hipposauroides and Pseudhipposaurus . A closely related biarmosuchian is Ictidorhinus , which has been placed in the family Ictidorhinidae. [1]
