Nikkasauridae

Extinct family of therapsids

Nikkasauridae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: Biarmosuchia
Family: Nikkasauridae
Ivakhnenko, 2000
Genera
  • Nikkasaurus
  • Reiszia

Nikkasauridae is a family of biarmosuchian therapsids. It contains two genera Nikkasaurus and Reiszia.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ M. F. Ivakhnenko, 2000. The Nikkasauridae-Problematic Primitive Therapsids from the Late Permian of the Mezen Localities. Paleontol. J. 34(Suppl. 2), 179–186.
  2. ^ M. F. Ivakhnenko. 2008. Podklass Ophiacomorpha. In M. F. Ivakhnenko and E. N. Kurochkin (eds.), Iskopaemye pozvonotchnye Rossii i sopredel'nykh stran: Iskopaemye reptilii i ptitsy, Tchast' 1 [Fossil vertebrates of Russia and adjacent countries: Fossil reptiles and birds, Part 1], GEOS, Moscow 95-100
  3. ^ Kemp, Thomas Stainforth (2005). The Origin and Evolution of Mammals. ISBN 0-19-850760-7.
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Synapsida
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Superclass: Tetrapoda
  • Clade: Amniota
Tetrapodomorpha
    • see Tetrapodomorpha
Reptiliomorpha
    • see Reptiliomorpha
Synapsida
    • see below↓
Caseasauria?
Eothyrididae
Caseidae
Varanopidae?
Mesenosaurinae
Varanodontinae
Metopophora
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Incertae sedis
Ennatosaurus tecton Varanodon agilis
Ophiacodontidae
Edaphosauridae
Palaeohatteriidae
Sphenacodontoidea
Sphenacodontidae
Therapsida
    • see below↓
Clepsydrops colletii

Gordodon kraineri

Secodontosaurus obtusidens
Biarmosuchia
    • see Biarmosuchia
Dinocephalia
    • see Dinocephalia
Anomodontia
Gorgonopsia
    • see Gorgonopsia
Eutheriodontia
Therocephalia
    • see Therocephalia
Cynodontia
Incertae sedis
Raranimus dashankouensis


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