Name:
Myosauroides.
Phonetic: My-o-sor-oy-deez.
Named By: Robert Broom - 1949.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Anomodontia, Dicynodontia.
Species: M. minnaari.
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa, Karoo Basin.
Time period: Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Myosauroides is a genus of dicynodont therapsid that lived in South Africa during the Permian.
Further reading
- Some new Karoo reptiles, with notes on a few others: - Annals
of the Transvaal Museum, v. 20, part 3, p. 193-213. -
Robert Broom - 1949.