Kannemeyeriidae
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| Kannemeyeriidae Temporal range: Triassic |
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Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Infraorder: | †Dicynodontia |
| clade: | †Kannemeyeriiformes |
| Family: | †Kannemeyeriidae Huene, 1948 |
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Dinodontosaurus |
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Kannemeyeriidae is a family of large, stocky, beaked and sometimes tusked dicynodonts. They were the dominant large terrestrial herbivores through most of the Triassic period. Well known genera include Kannemeyeria, Sinokannemeyeria, Dinodontosaurus, and Placerias.
[edit] Phylogeny
Below is a cladogram modified from Surkov and Benton (2008) showing the phylogenetic relationships of kannemeyeriids:[1]
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[edit] References
- ^ Surkov, M.V.; and Benton, M.J. (2008). "Head kinematics and feeding adaptations of the Permian and Triassic dicynodonts". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (4): 1120–1129. doi:10.1671/0272-4634-28.4.1120.
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