Neotherapsida


The Neotherapsida are a clade of therapsids. The clade includes anomodonts and the more derived theriodonts, which include mammals.

Distribution

Permian

In the Permian geological period, Neotherapsida lived in Germany, India, Madagascar, Niger, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States in Texas, and Zambia.

Severodvinian

In the Severodvinian age of the Tatarian stage of the Permian time period, Neotherapsida lived in Russia.

Triassic

In the Triassic, Neotherapsida lived in Antarctica, Argentina, Brazil, China, Germany, Lesotho, Morocco, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania, and United States in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.

Jurassic

In the Jurassic time period, basal Neotherapsida lived in Lesotho.

Cretaceous

In the Cretaceous period, basal Neotherapsida lived in Australia and Russia.

Classification

The Neotherapsida were named and classified as a subgroup of the clade Eutherapsida by James Allen Hopson in 1999.

Relatives

Taxonomy

Anomodontia