Shaanbeikannemeyeria

Shaanbeikannemeyeria
Temporal range: Anisian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: Anomodontia
Clade: Dicynodontia
Clade: Kannemeyeriiformes
Genus: Shaanbeikannemeyeria
Cheng, 1980
Species

Shaanbeikannemeyeria is an extinct genus of dicynodont known from the Early Triassic of China.[1] It contains a single species, S. xilougoensis, which was described in 1980 by Zheng-Wu Cheng from a skull catalogued as IGCAGS V315. The specimen was lost, and a neotype skull IVPP V 11674 was later designated. A second species, S. buergondia, was named by Jin-Lin Li in 1980 from a partial skeleton,[2] but it has since been regarded as a synonym of S. xilougoensis.[3]

  1. ^ Cheng, Z.W. (1980). "古脊椎动物化石" [Vertebrate fossils]. 陕甘宁盆地中生代地层古生物 [Mesozoic stratigraphy and paleontology of basins of Shanxi, Gangsu, and Ningxia]. Vol. 2. Beijing: Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences. pp. 115–188.
  2. ^ Li, J.L. (1980). "Kannemeyeria fossil from Inner Mongolia". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 18: 94–99.
  3. ^ Liu, J. (2022). "On kannemeyeriiform dicynodonts from the Shaanbeikannemeyeria Assemblage Zone of the Ordos Basin, China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica: 1–38.