Shaanbeikannemeyeria

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]

Shaanbeikannemeyeria Temporal range: Anisian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Suborder:	†Anomodontia
Clade:	†Dicynodontia
Clade:	†Kannemeyeriiformes
Genus:	†Shaanbeikannemeyeria Cheng, 1980
Species
†S. xilougoensis Cheng, 1980 (type species)

Paleobiology

Shaanbeikannemeyeria hails from the Ermaying Formation, which also yields the genera Fenhosuchus, Eumetabolodon, Halazhaisuchus, Guchengosuchus, Neoprocolophon, Ordosiodon, Wangisuchus and Shansisuchus.^[4]

See also

• Paleontology portal

• List of therapsids

References

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.
4. Sun, A.L. (1980). "Late Permian and Triassic terrestrial tetrapods of North China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 18 (2): 100–111.

External links

• The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive