Name: Lumkuia.
Phonetic: Lum-ke-e-ah.
Named By: J. A. Hopson & J. W.
Kitching - 2001.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Cynodontia.
Species: L. fuzzi (type).
Diet: Carnivore?
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa - Burgersdorp
Formation.
Time period: Anisian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial skeleton.
Lumkuia is a genus of cynodont that lived in South Africa during the Triassic.
Further reading
- A probainognathian cynodont from South Africa and the phylogeney of
nonmammalian cynodonts. - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative
Zoology 156(1):5-35. - J. A. Hopson & J. W.
Kitching - 2001.