Santacruzodon
Appearance
	
	
| Santacruzodon Temporal range:  
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| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Clade: | Synapsida | 
| Clade: | Therapsida | 
| Clade: | Cynodontia | 
| Family: | †Traversodontidae | 
| Subfamily: | †Massetognathinae | 
| Genus: | †Santacruzodon | 
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Santacruzodon is an extinct genus of cynodonts which existed in Brazil during the Triassic period. The type species is Santacruzodon hopsoni.[1]
Species
[edit]Santacruzodon hopsoni is a species that was collected in 1995 in Santa Cruz do Sul, in the Geopark of Paleorrota, Brazil. This species is linked to Dadadon, found in Madagascar.
References
[edit]- ^ Abdala, F. & Ribeiro, A.M. (2003). "A new traversodontid cynodont from the Santa Maria Formation (Ladinian-Carnian) of southern Brazil, with a phylogenetic analysis of Gondwanan traversodontids". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 139: 529–545. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00096.x.
 
External links
[edit]- Figura
 - German Natural History Museum (in German)