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(van
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)
<bibRefCitation id="EFD64B4F961C0F12D90DFAE1FA35FABF" author="Cluver" box="[565,826,1298,1324]" pageId="7" pageNumber="17" refString="Cluver, M. A. &amp; King, G. M. (1983) A reassessment of the relationships of Permian Dicynodontia (Reptilia, Therapsida) and a new classification of dicynodonts. Annals of the South African Museum, 91, 195 - 273." type="journal article" year="1983">Cluver &amp; King, 1983</bibRefCitation>
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All taxa more closely related to
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<emphasis id="B933EAAC961C0F12D9DDFAA8FADFFAE7" box="[741,976,1371,1396]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Emydops arctatus</emphasis>
(
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)
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a, than
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<emphasis id="B933EAAC961C0F12DBAFFA72F8DFFA09" box="[151,464,1409,1434]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Cistecephalus microrhinus</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="B933EAAC961C0F12DBFEFA54F8E7FA52" bold="true" box="[198,488,1447,1473]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Taxonomic comments:</emphasis>
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established the family-level taxa
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and Emydopinae to contain
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<emphasis id="B933EAAC961C0F12DA89FA3CFB12FA7B" box="[433,541,1487,1512]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Emydops</emphasis>
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b, despite the fact that van
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had already named this taxon as the subfamily Emydopsinae [
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]. Phylogenetic analyses of dicynodonts (
<emphasis id="B933EAAC961C0F12DFA9FA06FD91F99D" box="[1169,1182,1525,1550]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">e</emphasis>
.
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., Angielczyk 2007;
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;
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) consistently recover
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<emphasis id="B933EAAC961C0F12D84CF9EFFAEEF9A6" box="[884,993,1564,1589]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Emydops</emphasis>
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as the sister-group to the other wellknown emydopoids (
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<emphasis id="B933EAAC961C0F12DAA7F9B0FB26F9CF" box="[415,553,1603,1628]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Myosaurus</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B933EAAC961C0F12D902F9B0FBA4F9CF" box="[570,683,1603,1628]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Kingoria</emphasis>
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, and cistecephalids), so we restrict the external specifier to
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<emphasis id="B933EAAC961C0F12DBAFF99AF834F911" box="[151,315,1641,1666]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Cistecephalus</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="B933EAAC961C0F12DBFEF97CF8A3F93A" bold="true" box="[198,428,1679,1705]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Revised diagnosis:</emphasis>
Two autapomorphies of
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are present in the data set of Angielczyk (2007): (1) lateral anterior palatal ridges present; (2) upper postcanine teeth located near lateral margin of the maxilla. One autapomorphy of
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is present in the data set of
<bibRefCitation id="EFD64B4F961C0F12D841F92EFD35F964" author="Frobisch" box="[889,1082,1757,1783]" pageId="7" pageNumber="17" refString="Frobisch, J. (2007) The cranial anatomy of Kombuisia frerensis Hotton (Synapsida, Dicynodontia) and a new phylogeny of anomodont therapsids. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 150, 117 - 144." type="journal article" year="2007">Fröbisch (2007)</bibRefCitation>
: (1) maxillary non-caniniform teeth located near lateral margin of the maxilla. The addition of
<taxonomicName id="4C474D3D961C0F12D8B2F8F7FD4CF88E" box="[906,1091,1796,1821]" class="Reptilia" family="Microhylidae" genus="Emydops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="oweni">
<emphasis id="B933EAAC961C0F12D8B2F8F7FD4CF88E" box="[906,1091,1796,1821]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Emydops oweni</emphasis>
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to the data set of
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renders the status of that character uncertain, because it could not be scored using the available specimens of
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<emphasis id="B933EAAC961C0F12DA01F8A2F890F8F9" box="[313,415,1873,1898]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">E. oweni</emphasis>
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. However, one emydopid autapomorphy does exist in the data set of
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: (1) squared-off profile of occiput in posterior view present. Recent diagnoses of
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<emphasis id="B933EAAC961C0F12DFA5F88BFC07F802" box="[1181,1288,1912,1937]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Emydops</emphasis>
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itself can be found in
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Keyser (1993; called
<emphasis id="B933EAAC961C0F12DAC4F86CFB7EF82B" box="[508,625,1951,1976]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Emydoses</emphasis>
therein)
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,
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,
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, and
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, with additional information in
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Angielczyk
<emphasis id="B933EAAC961C0F12D837F836FA41F84D" box="[783,846,1989,2014]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">et al.</emphasis>
(2005)
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. The jaw of
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is the single most distinctive part of its skeleton, and is characterized by a shovel-shaped symphysis, weak posterior dentary sulci, a small number of medially located postcanine teeth, and a large, triangular lateral dentary shelf.
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