Lycosuchidae is a family of therocephalians (an extinct type of therapsids, broader group which modern mammals belong to) known from fossils from what is now the Beaufort Group of South Africa and that lived during the Middle to Late Permian between roughly 265 to 259.2 million years ago. It currently includes only two genera each with a single species, Lycosuchus, represented by L. vanderrieti, and Simorhinella, represented by S. baini, both named by paleontologist Robert Broom in 1903 and 1915, respectively (though Simorhinella was not recognised as a lycosuchid until 2014). Both species are
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