Etjoia
| Etjoia Temporal range: Middle Triassic–Late 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.
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