| Ecteninion Temporal range:Carnian | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Family: | †Ecteniniidae |
| Genus: | †Ecteninion Martínezet al.1996 |
| Type species | |
| †Ecteninion lunensis Martínezet al. 1996 | |
| Synonyms | |
Ectenion (sic)Stefanelloet al. 2023 | |
Ecteninion is an extinctgenus of meat-eatingcynodonts that lived during theLate Triassic (Carnian) inSouth America. Thetype speciesEcteninion lunensis was named by R.N. Martinez, C.L. May, andC.A. Forster in 1996.E. lunensis is known from a nearly complete skull of about 11 centimetres (4.3 in) in length. It was found in the Cancha de Bochas Member of theIschigualasto Formation in theIschigualasto-Villa Unión Basin in northwesternArgentina.[1] It has been interpreted as a basaleucynodont. Theholotype is in the collection of the Universidad Nacional de San Juan.
Ecteninion in acladogram after Hopson & Kitching (2001):[2]
Cladogram after Stefanelloet al. (2023):[3]
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