Cryptodontia
| Cryptodontia Temporal range: Middle Permian - Late Triassic |
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| Skull of Oudenodon latirostris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Infraorder: | †Dicynodontia |
| Stem group: | †Bidentalia |
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†Cryptodontia Owen, 1860 |
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Cryptodontia is a group of dicynodont therapsids that includes the families Geikiidae, Oudenodontidae, and Rhachiocephalidae. It was first named in 1860 by English paleontologist Richard Owen. Owen intended Cryptodontia to be a family, and the name was later changed to "Cryptodontidae" to reflect this ranking. The name Cryptodontia was restored in 2009 when it was redefined as a larger clade containing several families of dicynodonts.
Below is a cladogram from Kammerer et al. (2011) showing the phylogenetic placement of Cryptodontia:
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