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Pristerognathus
Pristerognathus is an extinct genus of therocephalian, known from the late Middle Permian (Capitanian) of South Africa. It lends its name to the now defunct Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group of South African geological strata (now mostly equivalent to the lower Endothiodon Assemblage Zone). Pristerognathus was a medium-sized therocephalian with a skull and a total length up to . thumb|left|Skull in Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin These animals were roughly dog-sized, and are characterized by long, narrow skulls with large canines. They are likely to have lived in woodlands,
Scylacosaurus
thumb|left|Life restoration Scylacosaurus is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids that lived during the Permian period. It contains one species Scylacosaurus sclateri.
Scylacosauridae
Scylacosauridae is an extinct family of therocephalian therapsids. Scylacosaurids lived during the Permian period and were among the most basal therocephalians. The family was named by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1903. Scylacosaurids have long snouts and unusual saber-like canine teeth.
Porosteognathus
Porosteognathus is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids. Remains have been found at Isheevo in Russia (Republic of Tatarstan). It is known from the Middle Permian.
Glanosuchus macrops
Glanosuchus is a genus of scylacosaurid therocephalian from the Late Permian of South Africa. The type species G. macrops was named by Robert Broom in 1904. Glanosuchus had a middle ear structure that was intermediate between that of early therapsids and mammals. Ridges in the nasal cavity of Glanosuchus suggest it had an at least partially endothermic metabolism similar to modern mammals.
Blattoidealestes
Blattoidealestes is a dubious genus of therocephalian, an extinct therapsid from the Middle Permian of South Africa. The type species Blattoidealestes gracilis was named by South African paleontologist Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone in 1954. Dating back to the Middle Permian, Blattoidealestes is one of the oldest therocephalians. It is similar in appearance to the small therocephalian Perplexisaurus from Russia, and may be closely related.
Alopecognathus
thumb|left|Life restoration Alopecognathus is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa.
Ictidosaurus
Ictidosaurus was a therapsid genus found in the Abrahamskraal Formation of South Africa, which lived during the middle Permian period. Fossils of the type species were found in the Tapinocephalus (Capitanian age, 265.8-260.4 Ma), and the base of the Eodicynodon (Wordian age, 268–265.8 Ma) assembly zones, of the Karoo Basin. Older classifications of the species, along with many other specimens found in the Iziko South African Museum archives, were originally classified within therocephalian family names, in this case the Ictidosauridae, which has been reclassified as belonging to the Scylacosau