Etjoia

Etjoia
Temporal range: Middle TriassicLate Triassic
Skull of Etjoia in left lateral view.
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Family: Traversodontidae
Genus: Etjoia
Hendrickx et al., 2020
Species:
E. dentitransitus
Binomial name
Etjoia dentitransitus
Hendrickx et al., 2020

Etjoia is an extinct genus of traversodontid cynodonts that lived during the Middle Triassic or Late Triassic period in southern Africa. This medium-sized omnivorous cynognathian provides important information on the dental evolution of early diverging gomphodonts and traversodontids.