Kwazulusaurus
Sign in to saveKwazulusaurus is a potentially invalid genus of dicynodont therapsid from the Late Permian of South Africa. The type and only species K. shakai was described from the Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group in 2002 by Michael W. Maisch. It is very similar to the well-known dicynodont Lystrosaurus, and was regarded by Maisch to be an early member of the family Lystrosauridae. Kwazulusaurus was described as transitional between earlier dicynodontoids and the more derived Lystrosaurus; it has the wide skull roof of earlier dicynodonts, and a abridged snoot like that of Lystrosaurus. I
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Within Vinony's link graph, Kwazulusaurus is referenced by 141 other articles, and connects out to Therapsida, Dicynodont and Pristerodon.
Vinony files it under Bidentalia, Fossil taxa described in 2002 and Lopingian genus extinctions.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Parent taxon
- Lystrosauridae
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- genus
- taxon name
- Kwazulusaurus
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