REVISION DU GENREPROTOCYNODON BROOM 1949 ET DISCUSSION DE SA POSITION TAXONOMIQUE
Date
1972
Authors
Mendrez, Christiane Helene
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BERNARD PRICE INSTITUTE FOR PALAEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Abstract
On revision of Protocynodon pricei Broom
1949, it is concluded that this genus is to be placed
amongst the Cynodontia Procynosuchidae. This
study completes that undertaken by Broom
(1949); it has also enabled us to observe the tooth
replacement and, after further preparation, the
internal face of the endocranium basis. In
preference to the term Bauriamorpha,
Scaloposauria has been chosen to include:
Ictidosuchidae, Scaloposauridae, Bauriidae,
Ericiolacertidae, Lycideopsidae, N anictidopsidae
and Silpholestidae. In addition, after comparison
between Scaloposauria and Cynodontia on one
hand, and between Procynosuchidae and
Silphedestidae on the other hand, the author
suggests that the latter family should be reviewed
and placed amongst the Cynodontia, as indicated
by Haughton and Brink in 1954, and Brink
(1960a), rather than amongst the Bauriamorpha, as
suggested by Watson and Romer in 1956.