Scylacosauridae
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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.
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It sits within the topics Guadalupian first appearances, Lopingian extinctions and Prehistoric therapsid families.
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Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Scylacosauria
- Image
- Scylacosaurus.jpg
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- taxon name
- Scylacosauridae
- taxon rank
- family
- Commons category
- Scylacosauridae
- topic's main category
- Category:Scylacosauridae
- start time
- 265000000-
- end time
- 249000000-
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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.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scylacosauridae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.