Homodontosaurus

Homodontosaurus Temporal range: Late Permian
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Clade:	†Therocephalia
Superfamily:	†Baurioidea
Genus:	†Homodontosaurus Broom, 1949
Type species
†Homodontosaurus kitchingi Broom, 1949

Homodontosaurus is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa. The type species Homodontosaurus kitchingi was named by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1949. Broom based his description on a small skull found in the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone near Graaff-Reinet. The skull is very small, at about 55 millimetres (2.2 in) long and 20 millimetres (0.79 in) wide. Homodontosaurus has large eye sockets and an elongated snout. The lower jaw is long, thin, and curved. Numerous small teeth line the upper jaw and are long, pointed, and round in cross-section.^[1]

When he first named Homodontosaurus in 1949, Broom considered it to be a pelycosaur. He noted similarities between the skull of Homodontosaurus and that of the sphenacodontid Secodontosaurus from the Early Permian of Texas. Broom thought that Homodontosaurus was most closely related to a pelycosaur called Elliotsmithia, which he named in 1937 on the basis of the back half of a skull.^[1] In 1950, South African paleontologist A. S. Brink described a second specimen of Homodontosaurus, which included an articulated postrcranial skeleton.^[2] On the basis of this skeleton, paleontologists D. M. S. Watson and Alfred Romer reclassified it as a scaloposaurid therocephalian in 1956.^[3] Scaloposaurids are now recognized as an artificial grouping of the juvenile forms of many therocephalians. Homodontosaurus has even been considered the juvenile form of the larger therocephalian Tetracynodon.^[4] Homodontosaurus and most other scalopodontids are now classified as basal members of Baurioidea.

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Therocephalia

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Clade: Synapsida Clade: Therapsida Clade: Eutheriodontia
Synapsida see Synapsida Therocephalia see below↓

Therocephalia
Therocephalia Gorynychus Porosteognathus Cynodontia? Lycosuchidae Lycosuchus Simorhinella Scylacosauridae Alopecodon Alopecognathus Biarmosuchoides? Eutheriodon Glanosuchus Hyorhynchus Julognathus Koksharovia Maraisaurus Pardosuchus Pristerognathus Scylacosaurus Eutherocephalia Caodeyao Kotelcephalon? Nanictidops Perplexisaurus Purlovia Scylacosuchus? Cynodontia? Chthonosauridae Chthonosaurus Ichibengops Akidnognathidae Akidnognathus Annatherapsidus Cerdosuchoides Euchambersia Jiufengia Moschorhinus Notaelurodon Olivierosuchus Promoschorhynchus Shiguaignathus Zorillodontops Whaitsioidea Ophidostoma Hofmeyriidae Gorochovetzia Hofmeyria Ictidostoma Mirotenthes Whaitsiidae Dalongkoua Ictidochampsa Megawhaitsia Microwhaitsia Moschowhaitsia Theriognathus Viatkosuchus Baurioidea see below↓

Baurioidea
Baurioidea Homodontosaurus Icticephalus Ictidodon Ictidodraco Ictidognathus Macroscelesaurus Nanictocephalus Polycynodon Rhigosaurus Scalopocephalus Scalopodon Scalopolacerta Silphictidoides Silpholestes Yikezhaogia Ictidosuchidae Ictidosuchoides Ictidosuchops Ictidosuchus Malasaurus Muchia? Scalopodontes Scaloporhinus? Scaloposuchus Karenitidae Karenites Mupashi Lycideopidae Choerosaurus Lycideops Tetracynodon Regisauridae Regisaurus Urumchia Bauriamorpha Hazhenia Nothogomphodon Notictoides Ordosiodon Scaloposaurus Ericiolacertidae Ericiolacerta Pedaeosaurus? Silphedosuchus Bauriidae Antecosuchus Bauria Microgomphodon Scalopognathus Traversodontoides

Nomina dubia
Alopecorhinus Arnognathus Blattoidealestes Dongusaurus Hyaenasuchus Ictidoparia Ictidosaurus Scymnosaurus Tamboeria Trochorhinus Trochosaurus Trochosuchus

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