†unranked clade Cistecephalidae Broom 1903 (dicynodont)
Osteichthyes - Dicynodontia - Cistecephalidae
Full reference: R. Broom. 1903. On the Classification of the Theriodonts and their Allies. Report of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science 1:286-294
Parent taxon: Kistecephalia according to C. F. Kammerer et al. 2016
See also Carroll 1988, Fröbisch and Reisz 2011, Haughton and Brink 1954, Kammerer and Angielczyk 2009 and Osborn 1904
Sister taxon: Myosauridae
Subtaxa: Cistecephaloides Cistecephalus Kawingasaurus Kembawacela Sauroscaptor
Ecology: herbivore
Distribution:
• Permian of India (1 collection), Malawi (1), South Africa (40), Tanzania (1), Zambia (4)
Total: 47 collections including 54 occurrences