Protheriodon Bonaparte et al. 2006 (mammaliamorph)

Osteichthyes - Therapsida - Brasilodontidae

Full reference: J. F. Bonaparte, M. B. Soares, and C. L. Schultz. 2006. A new non-mammalian cynodont from the Middle Triassic of southern Brazil and its implications for the ancestry of mammals. The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:599-607

Parent taxon: Brasilodontidae according to J. F. Bonaparte 2012

See also Bonaparte et al. 2006

Sister taxa: Brasilitherium, Brasilodon, Minicynodon, Panchetocynodon

Subtaxa: Protheriodon estudianti

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dona Francisca (Triassic of Brazil)

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