Stahleckeria
Name:
Stahleckeria.
Phonetic: Stah-lek-e-re-ah.
Named By: Friedrich von Huene - 1935.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Dicynodontia, Stahleckeriidae.
Species: S. potens (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Up to about 4 meters.
Known locations: Brazil - Santa Maria
Formation. Namibia - Omingonde Formation.
Time period: Ladinian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial remains of several
individuals.
Stahleckeria is a genus of very large dicynodont therapsid that lived in both South America and Africa. Like other dicynodonts, Stahleckeria was a herbivore that ate low growing vegetation. When fully grown Stahleckeria would have had few predators, though large rauisuchians would have still been a potential threat.
Further reading
- Lieferung 1. Anomodontia [Part 1. Anomodontia]. Die
Fossilen Reptilien des S�damerikanischen Gondwanalandes. Ergebnisse
der Sauriergrabungen in S�dbrasilien 1928/29 - [The Fossil
Reptiles of South American Gondwanaland. Results of the Dinosaur
Expeditions in southern Brazil 1928/29]. C. H. Beck'sche
Verlagsbuchhandlung, M�nchen 1-82. - Friedrich von Huene -
1935.
- Strengthening Western Gondwanan correlations: a Brazilian
dicynodont (Synapsida, Anomodontia) in the Middle Triassic of
Namibia. - Gondwana Research. - Fernando Abdala, Claudia A.
Marsicano, Roger M.H. Smith & Roger Swart - 2012.
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