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PRISTEROGNATHOIDES
(priss-teh-ro-nay-foy-deez)
meaning: "Pristerognathus like"
Pristerognathoides
Named By: unavailable
Time Period: Middle Permian
Location: South Africa - Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone (Beaufort Group)
Size: Skulls roughly about 25 centimetres long
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Partial skulls
Classification: | Chordata | Synaspida | Therapsida | Therocephalia | Scylacosauridae |
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Pristerognathoides ("Pristerognathus-like one") is an extinct genus of middle sized carnivorous therocephalian from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of South Africa. It is sometimes considered a synonym of Pristerognathus.

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