Cyamodontidae

Cyamodontidae is an extinct family of superficially turtle-like placodonts belonging to the superfamily Cyamodontoidea. Fossils have been found in Germany and Italy. It is named after Cyamodus, the namesake of the family.

Cyamodontids Temporal range: Middle-Late Triassic, 245–227 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil skeleton of Cyamodus.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	†Sauropterygia
Order:	†Placodontia
Superfamily:	†Cyamodontoidea
Family:	†Cyamodontidae Meyer, 1863
Genera
†Cyamodus †Protenodontosaurus

Meyer (1863) originally created the family solely for Cyamodus. However, the naming of Protenodontosaurus in 1990 by Pinna regrouped the two genera under one family.^{[citation needed]}