Gomphodontosuchinae
Gomphodontosuchinae Temporal range: Triassic
| |
---|---|
Skull of the gomphodontosuchine Exaeretodon | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Family: | †Traversodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Gomphodontosuchinae Watson and Romer, 1956 |
Subgroups | |
See text. |
Gomphodontosuchinae is a subfamily of Triassic traversodontid cynodonts. It includes the genera Gomphodontosuchus (the type genus), Exaeretodon, Santagnathus, Siriusgnathus, Menadon, Proexaeretodon, Protuberum, Ruberodon and Scalenodontoides.
Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic relationships of gomphodontosuchines from Kammerer et al. (2008):
Traversodontidae |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||