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Category:Tritylodontids

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Articles relating to the Tritylodontidae ("three-knob teeth", named after the shape of their cheek teeth), an extinct family of small to medium-sized, highly specialized mammal-like cynodonts, with several mammalian traits including erect limbs, endothermy, and details of the skeleton. They were the last-known family of the non-mammaliaform synapsids, persisting into the Early Cretaceous.