Sinokannemeyeria
Name:
Sinokannemeyeria
(Chinese Kannemeyeria).
Phonetic: Sy-no-kan-ne-mey-re-ah.
Named By: C.-C. Young - 1937.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Anomodontia, Dicynodontia, Kannemeyeriidae.
Species: S. pearsoni
(type), S. baidaoyuensis, S. sanchuanheensis, S.
yingchiaoensis.
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: About 1.8 meters long.
Known locations: China - Ermaying Formation.
Time period: Anisian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Several individuals.
A relative of the genus Kannemeyeria, Sinokannemeyeria was a fairly large herbivore that lived during the Triassic. Two large tusks grew down from the upper jaw, and these were most probably used to dig out plants for eating.
Further reading
- On the Triassic dicynodonts from Shansi. - Bulletin of the
Geological Society of China 17(3-4):393-41. - C.-C. Young
- 1937.
- New discoveries from the Sinokannemeyeria-Shansisuchus
Assemblage
Zone: 1. Kannemeyeriiformes from Shanxi, China. - Vertebrata
PalAsiatica 53(1):16-28. - J. Liu - 2015.
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