Sungeodon
Name: Sungeodon.
Phonetic: Sung-e-o-don.
Named By: M. W. Maisch & A. T.
Matzke - 2014.
Classification: Chordata, Syanpsida,
Therapsida, Dicynodontia, Stahleckeriidae.
Species: S. kimkraemerae
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: China, Jiangxi Province -
Jiucaiyuan Formation.
Time period: Induan/Olenekian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Skull.
Sungeodon is a late surviving genus of dicynodont that lived in China during the early Cretaceous. Most dicynodont genera are Permian in age, and most were wiped out during the Permian/Triassic extinction event. Sungeodon however is proof however that not all dicynodonts were killed off during this time, and that as a group the dicynodonts lived into the Triassic.
Further reading
- Sungeodon kimkraemerae n. gen. n. sp.,
the oldest
kannemeyeriiform (Therapsida, Dicynodontia) and its implications
for the early diversification of large herbivores after the P/T
boundary. - Neues Jahrbuch f�r Geologie und Pal�ontologie,
Abhandlungen 272(1):1-12. - M. W. Maisch & A.
T. Matzke - 2014.
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