Pristerognathus

Pristerognathus Fossil range: Upper Permian
Illustration of Pristerognathus, a therocephalian therapsid.
Scientific classification
Order:	Therapsida
Suborder:	Therocephalia
Genus:	Pristerognathus
Species:	P. vanderbyli

Pristerognathus is an extinct genus of therocephalian. These animals were about the size of a large dog, and had very large canines, which suggests that they were successful carnivores. They went extinct in the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event.^[1]

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