Osteichthyes - Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
Alternative spellings: Oudenodontinae, Udenodontidae
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1871. On the homologies of some of the cranial bones of the Reptilia, and on the systematic arrangement of the class. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 19:194-247
Parent taxon: Cryptodontia according to C. F. Kammerer and K. D. Angielczyk 2009
See also Carroll 1988, Cope 1871, Cope 1875, Jaekel 1911 and Kuhn 1946
Sister taxa: Daqingshanodon, Geikiidae, Keyseria, Rhachiocephalidae
Subtaxa: Australobarbarus Cteniosaurus Oudenodon Tropidostoma
Ecology: herbivore
Distribution:
• Permian of India (1 collection), Madagascar (1), Malawi (2), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (76), Zambia (7)
Total: 88 collections including 118 occurrences