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Epicynodontia

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eucynodontia("true dog teeth") a clade of cynodont therapsids including mammals and most non-mammalian cynodonts.
prozostrodontiaa clade of cynodonts including mammaliaforms and their closest relatives such as Tritheledontidae and Tritylodontidae.
mammaliaformes("mammalian forms") a clade of synapsid tetrapods that includes the crown group mammals and their closest extinct relatives; the group radiated from earlier probainognathian cynodonts during the Late Triassic.
cynodontnoun(zoology) Any of several small carnivorous synapsids in the clade Cynodontia, ancestral to mammals and extinct close relatives.
cerapoda—
eupelycosauriaa large clade of animals characterized by the unique shape of their skull, encompassing all mammals and their closest extinct relatives.
therapsidnounAny member of the order Therapsida
maniraptoromorpha—
dinosauromorphaa clade of avemetatarsalians (archosaurs closer to birds than to crocodilians) that includes the Dinosauria (dinosaurs) and some of their close relatives.
sphenacodontoideaa node-based clade that is defined to include the most recent common ancestor of Sphenacodontidae and Therapsida and its descendants (including mammals).
gravisauria—
carnivoramorpha("carnivoran-like forms") a clade of placental mammals of clade Pan-Carnivora from mirorder Ferae, that includes the modern order Carnivora and its extinct stem-relatives.
carnivoraformes—
neosuchiaa clade within Mesoeucrocodylia that includes all modern extant crocodilians and their closest fossil relatives.
tethytheriaa clade of mammals that includes the sirenians, proboscideans,
amniotenoun(biology) Any of the Amniota group of vertebrates having an amnion during the development of the embryo; mammals, birds and reptiles.
coelurosauria(from Greek, meaning "hollow-tailed lizards") the clade containing all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to carnosaurs.
megalosauridaea monophyletic family of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs within the group Megalosauroidea.
pan-carnivora—
deinonychosauriaa clade of paravian dinosaurs which lived from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous periods.

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