Suborder Cynodontia Phylum Chordata Order Therapsid | Class Synapsida Family Therioherpetidae Rank Genus | |
Similar Trucidocynodon, Brasilitherium, Traversodon, Menadon, Lumkuia | ||
Therioherpeton is a genus based on Therioherpeton cargnini, a small cynodont who lived in the Triassic and was collected in Santa Maria, Santa Maria Formation, the Geopark of Paleorrota, Brazil. It was a small carnivore. For his characteristic (Barberena & Bonaparte, 1975), was touted as a likely ancestor of mammals.
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