Biology:Kwazulusaurus
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Short description: Extinct genus of dicynodonts
| Kwazulusaurus Temporal range: Late Permian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Anomodontia |
| Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
| Family: | †Lystrosauridae |
| Genus: | †Kwazulusaurus Maisch, 2002 |
| Type species | |
| †K. shakai Maisch, 2002
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Kwazulusaurus is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid from the Late Permian of South Africa . The type species K. shakai was described from the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group in 2002. It has many similarities with the well-known dicynodont Lystrosaurus, and has been placed in the same family, Lystrosauridae. Kwazulusaurus appears to be transitional between early dicynodonts and the more derived Lystrosaurus; it has the wide skull roof of earlier dicynodonts, and a shortened snout like that of Lystrosaurus.[1]
References
- ↑ Maisch, M.W. (2002). "A new basal lystrosaurid dicynodont from the Upper Permian of South Africa". Palaeontology 45 (2): 343–359. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00240. Bibcode: 2002Palgy..45..343M.
Wikidata ☰ Q964966 entry
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