Definition of Cynognathian. Meaning of Cynognathian. Synonyms of Cynognathian

- Cynognathians included the large carnivorous genus Cynognathus and the herbivorous or omnivorous gomphodonts such as traversodontids. Cynognathians can...
- Brazil. Traversodonts are members of Gomphodontia, a group of herbivorous cynognathian cynodonts. As an adaptation toward eating plants, they have wide postcanine...
- Cynognathus is an extinct genus of large-bodied cynodontian therapsids that lived in the Middle Tri****ic. It is known from a single species, Cynognathus...
- Cynognathians of the Santa Maria Formation Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images Exaeretodon E. major São Pedro do Sul Lower...
- Trirachodontidae is an extinct, possibly paraphyletic family of cynognathian cynodonts from the Tri****ic of China and southern Africa. Trirachodontids...
- Synapsids Genus Species Notes Images Cynognathus C. Crateronotus A cynognathian cynodont Diademodon D. tetragonus A diademodontid cynodont Acratophorus...
- Late Tri****ic period in southern Africa. This medium-sized omnivorous cynognathian provides important information on the dental evolution of early diverging...
- containing mammals and related taxa. Gomphodontia is still used for the cynognathian group containing traversodontids and is preferred over Tritylodontoidea...
- Gomphodontia is a clade of cynognathian cynodonts that includes the families Diademodontidae, Trirachodontidae, and Traversodontidae. Gomphodonts are distinguished...
- Probainognathia, being closer to mammals than to the traversodontids and other cynognathians. The cladogram below is from a 2023 paper by Stefanello et al., and...