Impidens
| Impidens Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Life restoration of Impidens hancoxi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Family: | †Trirachodontidae |
| Genus: | †Impidens Tolchard, Kammerer, Butler, Hendrickx, Benoit, Abdala, & Choiniere, 2021 |
| Type species | |
| Impidens hancoxi Tolchard, Kammerer, Butler, Hendrickx, Benoit, Abdala, & Choiniere, 2021 | |
Impidens is an extinct genus of large omnivorous cynodont from the Triassic of South Africa and Antarctica. Its type and only species is Impidens hancoxi. Impidens inhabited high-latitude environments of southern Gondwana during the Middle Triassic, where it was probably the apex predator.