''Luangwa'' is an extinct

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

traversodontid Traversodontidae is an extinct family of herbivorous cynodonts. Traversodonts were primarily Gondwanan, with many species known from Africa and South America. Recently, traversodonts have also been found from Europe and eastern North America. Tra ...

cynodonts. The species ''Luangwa drysdalli'' was discovered 1963 in the valley of the Luangwa river in

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. ''Luangwa'' lived in the

Triassic The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Year#Abbreviations yr and ya, Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 ...

period 240 Million years ago. In July 2008, a skull of ''Luangwa sudamericana'' was found in the

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ian town of Dona Francisca ( Rio Grande do Sul), which is part of the

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Paleorrota. The discovery was made by a team of the

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Grupo acha crânio de cinodonte.

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Traversodontids Prehistoric cynodont genera Middle Triassic synapsids of South America Middle Triassic synapsids of Africa Fossil taxa described in 1963 {{paleo-therapsid-stub