Kannemeyeria

Kannemeyeria; Temporal range: Anisian; ~
	Skull of Kannemeyeria simocephalus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Suborder:	†Anomodontia
Clade:	†Dicynodontia
Family:	†Kannemeyeriidae
Genus:	†Kannemeyeria; Seeley, 1908
Type species
	†Kannemeyeria proboscoides; Seeley, 1908; (Junior synonym of K. simocephalus)
Species
	K. aganosteus Kammerer & Ordoñez, 2021; K. lophorhinus Renaut et al., 2003; K. simocephalus (Weithofer, 1888);
Synonyms
	Genus synonymy Proplacerias Cruickshank, 1970 ; ?Ptychocynodon Seeley, 1904 [nomen nudum?] ; Sagecephalus Jaekel, 1911 ; Shaanbeikannemeyeria? Cheng, 1980 ; Uralokannemeyeria? Danilov, 1971 ; Species synonymy Synonyms of K. simocephalus: Dicynodon latifrons Broom, 1889 ; Kannemeyeria erithrea Haughton, 1915 ; K. proboscoides Seeley, 1909 ; K. wilsoni Cruickshank, 1970 ; Proplacerias vanhoepeni (Camp, 1956) ; ?Ptychocynodon pentangulatus Seeley, 1904 [nomen nudum?] ; Sagecephalus pachyrhynchus Jaekel, 1911 ; ;

Kannemeyeria is a genus of dicynodont that lived during the Anisian age of Middle Triassic period in what is now Africa and South America. The generic name is given in honor of Daniel Rossouw Kannemeyer, the South African fossil collector who discovered the original specimen. It is one of the first representatives of the family, and hence one of the first large herbivores of the Triassic.

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