Chiniquodon

Chiniquodon Temporal range: Carnian ~235–221.5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil of C. theotonicus in the Museum of Paleontology, Tuebingen
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Clade:	Cynodontia
Family:	†Chiniquodontidae
Genus:	†Chiniquodon von Huene 1936
Type species
†Chiniquodon theotonicus von Huene, 1936
Species
†C. kalanoro Kammerer et al., 2010 †C. kitchingi (Texeira, 1982) †C. omaruruensis Mocke, Gaetano & Abdala, 2020 †C. sanjuanensis (Martinez & Forster, 1996) †C. theotonicus von Huene, 1936
Synonyms
Belesodon von Huene, 1936 Probelesodon Romer, 1969

Chiniquodon is an extinct genus of carnivorous cynodonts, which lived during the Late Triassic (Carnian) in South America (Argentina and Brazil) and Africa (Namibia and Madagascar). Chiniquodon was closely related to the genus Aleodon,^[1] and close to the ancestry of mammals.

Other contemporaries included early dinosaurs. As both groups filled a similar ecological niche, fairly large therapsid hunters such as Chiniquodon may have been outcompeted by dinosaurs.