''Langbergia'' is an extinct genus of

trirachodontid Trirachodontidae is an extinct, possibly paraphyletic family of cynognathian cynodonts from the Triassic of China and southern Africa. Trirachodontids appeared during the Early Triassic soon after the Permian-Triassic extinction event and quick ...

cynodont The cynodonts () (clade Cynodontia) are a clade of eutheriodont therapsids that first appeared in the Late Permian (approximately 260 mya), and extensively diversified after the Permian–Triassic extinction event. Cynodonts had a wide variety ...

from the Early Triassic of South Africa. The

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and only species ''L. modisei'' was named in 2006. ''Langbergia'' was found in the Burgersdorp Formation in the

Beaufort Group The Beaufort Group is the third of the main subdivisions of the Karoo Supergroup in South Africa. It is composed of a lower Adelaide Subgroup and an upper Tarkastad Subgroup. It follows conformably after the Ecca Group and unconformably underlie ...

, a part of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone. The closely related trirachodontids ''

Trirachodon ''Trirachodon'' (Greek: "three ridge tooth") is an extinct genus of cynodonts. Fossils have been found in the ''Cynognathus'' Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group in South Africa and the Omingonde Formation of Namibia, dating back to the Early ...

'' and '' Cricodon'' were found in the same area.

References

Cynognathians Prehistoric cynodont genera Early Triassic synapsids of Africa Fossil taxa described in 2006 {{paleo-therapsid-stub