Syodon
| Syodon Temporal range: Middle Permian
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| Skull in Moscow Paleontological Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Dinocephalia |
| Family: | †Anteosauridae |
| Genus: | †Syodon Kutorga, 1838 |
| Species: | †S. biarmicum
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| Binomial name | |
| †Syodon biarmicum Kutorga, 1838
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Syodon (from Greek: kleio, "close, shut" and Greek: odon, "tooth", "closed-root tooth") is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsids that lived approximately 267-260 million years ago during the middle Permian period of the Paleozoic era. These therapsids, discovered in Russia were initially believed to be true mammals. Syodon was first named by Stephan Kutorga in 1838.