Chiniquodon
Chiniquodon is an extinct genus of carnivorous cynodonts, which lived during the Late Triassic (Carnian) in South America (Argentina and Brazil) and Africa (Namibia and Madagascar). Chiniquodon was closely related to the genus Aleodon, and close to the ancestry of mammals.
| Chiniquodon Temporal range: Carnian ~ | |
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| Fossil of C. theotonicus in the Museum of Paleontology, Tuebingen | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Family: | †Chiniquodontidae |
| Genus: | †Chiniquodon von Huene 1936 |
| Type species | |
| †Chiniquodon theotonicus | |
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Other contemporaries included early dinosaurs. As both groups filled a similar ecological niche, fairly large therapsid hunters such as Chiniquodon may have been outcompeted by dinosaurs.
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