Phreatosuchidae

{{Short description|Extinct family of therapsids}}

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| fossil_range = Middle Permian

| taxon = Phreatosuchidae

| authority = Efremov, 1954

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Phreatosuchidae is an extinct family of basal dinocephalians.

It contains two genera, Phreatosuchus and Phreatosaurus.

References

[http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/synapsida/dinocephalia/dinocephalia_1.html The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive]

{{Dinocephalia}}

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Category:Dinocephalia

Category:Prehistoric therapsid families

Category:Permian first appearances

Category:Permian extinctions