Cricodon
Cricodon is an extinct genus of trirachodontid cynodonts that lived during the Early Triassic and Middle Triassic periods of Africa. A. W. Crompton named Cricodon based on the ring-like arrangement of the cuspules on the crown of a typical postcanine tooth. The epithet of the type species, C. metabolus, indicates the change in structure of certain postcanines resulting from replacement.
| Cricodon Temporal range: Early Triassic–Middle Triassic | |
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| The partial skeletal reconstruction of Cricodon metabolus with a tool as reference for size. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | †Neogomphodontia |
| Genus: | †Cricodon A. W. Crompton, 1955 |
| Type species | |
| †C. metabolus | |
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