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A new genus and species of probainognathian cynodont that roamed our planet during the Triassic period has been identified from two fossilized specimens found in southern Brazil. Life reconstruction of Agudotherium gassenae. Image credit: Márcio L. Castro. The new cynodont species lived approximately 218 million years ago (Late Triassic epoch). …

Paleontologists have uncovered a previously unknown species of cynodont that lived during the Triassic period in what is now Arizona, the United States. An artist’s impression of Kataigidodon venetus. Image credit: Ben Kligman / Hannah R. Kligman. Cynodonts (clade Cynodontia), literally meaning dog teeth, were one of the most diverse …