Kannemeyeria

Kannemeyeria
Temporal range: Anisian
~247–242 Ma
Skull of Kannemeyeria simocephalus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: Anomodontia
Clade: Dicynodontia
Family: Kannemeyeriidae
Genus: Kannemeyeria
Seeley, 1908
Type species
Kannemeyeria proboscoides
Seeley, 1908
(Junior synonym of K. simocephalus)
Species
  • K. aganosteus Kammerer & Ordoñez, 2021
  • K. lophorhinus Renaut et al., 2003
  • K. simocephalus (Weithofer, 1888)
Synonyms
Genus synonymy
Species synonymy
  • Synonyms of K. simocephalus:
    • Dicynodon latifrons Broom, 1889
    • Kannemeyeria erithrea Haughton, 1915
    • K. proboscoides Seeley, 1909
    • K. wilsoni Cruickshank, 1970
    • Proplacerias vanhoepeni (Camp, 1956)
    • ?Ptychocynodon pentangulatus Seeley, 1904 [nomen nudum?]
    • Sagecephalus pachyrhynchus Jaekel, 1911

Kannemeyeria is a genus of dicynodont that lived during the Anisian age of Middle Triassic period in what is now Africa and South America.[1] The generic name is given in honor of Daniel Rossouw Kannemeyer, the South African fossil collector who discovered the original specimen.[2] It is one of the first representatives of the family, and hence one of the first large herbivores of the Triassic.

  1. ^ "Kannemeyeria". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Kannemeyeria". Paleofile. Retrieved 12 March 2020.