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Kistecephalia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Therapsida

Superfamily
  
†Emydopoidea

Phylum
  
Chordata

Infraorder
  
†Dicynodontia

Kistecephalia

Stem group
  
†Kistecephalia Seeley, 1894

Kistecephalia is a clade of dicynodont therapsids. The group was first named in 1894, and was reinstated as a clade in 2009. Kistecephalia is a stem-based taxon defined as all taxa more closely related to Cistecephalus microrhinus than Emydops arctatus. It includes the families Myosauridae, Kingoriidae, and Cistecephalidae and is part of the larger group Emydopoidea. Kistecephalians were small in comparison to other dicynodonts. One group of kistecephalians, the cistecephalids, are thought to have been burrowers. Below is a cladogram from Kammerer et al. (2011) showing the phylogenetic relationships of kistecephalians:

References

Kistecephalia Wikipedia