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Extinct family of dicynodonts From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lystrosauridae is a family of dicynodont therapsids from the Permian and Triassic time periods. It includes two genera, Lystrosaurus and Kwazulusaurus.[6] Kwazulusaurus includes a single species, K. shakai, from the Late Permian of South Africa[7] and Lystrosaurus includes many species from the Late Permian and Early Triassic of South Africa, India, and Antarctica.[1]
Lystrosauridae Temporal range: Late Permian-late Triassic, | |
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Life restoration of Lystrosaurus georgi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | †Anomodontia |
Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
Infraorder: | †Dicynodontoidea |
Family: | †Lystrosauridae Broom, 1903 |
Genera | |
†?Basilodon Kammerer et al. 2011[1] |