| Anomodontia | |
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| Mounted skeleton ofLystrosaurus | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Anomodontia Owen, 1859 |
| Subgroups | |
Anomodontia is anextinct group of non-mammaliantherapsids from thePermian andTriassic periods.[1] By far the most speciose group are thedicynodonts, a clade of beaked, tuskedherbivores.[2] Anomodonts were very diverse during theMiddle Permian, including primitive forms likeAnomocephalus andPatranomodon and groups likeVenyukovioidea andDromasauria. Dicynodonts became the most successful and abundant of all herbivores in theLate Permian, filling ecological niches ranging from large browsers down to small burrowers. Few dicynodont families survived thePermian–Triassic extinction event, but one lineage (Kannemeyeriiformes) evolved into large, stocky forms that became dominant terrestrial herbivores right until theLate Triassic, when changing conditions caused them to decline, finally going extinct during theTriassic–Jurassic extinction event.
Cladogram modified from Cisneroset al., 2015.[3]
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Cladogram modified from Angielczyk and Kammerer (2017):[4]
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