Charassognathidae

Charassognathidae is an extinct family of basal cynodonts known from the Late Permian of South Africa and Zambia. It was named in 2016 by the palaeontologist Christian F. Kammerer, who defined it as all taxa more closely related to Charassognathus gracilis than to Dvinia prima, Galesaurus planiceps or Procynosuchus delaharpeae.^[2] The family contains the genera Charassognathus, Abdalodon and Nshimbodon, with the latter two making up the subfamily Abdalodontinae.^[1]

Charassognathids Temporal range: Late Permian (Wuchiapingian), 259–254 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Life restoration of Abdalodon diastematicus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Clade:	Cynodontia
Family:	†Charassognathidae Kammerer, 2016
Genera
†Charassognathus †Abdalodontinae Huttenlocker et al., 2020[1] †Abdalodon †Nshimbodon

References

1. Huttenlocker, Adam K.; Sidor, Christian A. (2020). "A basal nonmammaliaform cynodont from the Permian of Zambia and the origins of mammalian endocranial and postcranial anatomy". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: e1827413. doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1827413.
2. Kammerer, Christian F. (2016). "A new taxon of cynodont from the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone (upper Permian) of South Africa, and the early evolution of Cynodontia". Papers in Palaeontology. 2 (3): 387–397. doi:10.1002/spp2.1046.