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''Moghreberia'' is an
extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
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dicynodont Dicynodontia is an extinct clade of anomodonts, an extinct type of non-mammalian therapsid. Dicynodonts were herbivorous animals with a pair of tusks, hence their name, which means 'two dog tooth'. Members of the group possessed a horny, typicall ...
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Late Triassic The Late Triassic is the third and final epoch (geology), epoch of the Triassic geologic time scale, Period in the geologic time scale, spanning the time between annum, Ma and Ma (million years ago). It is preceded by the Middle Triassic Epoch ...
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Carnian The Carnian (less commonly, Karnian) is the lowermost stage of the Upper Triassic Series (or earliest age of the Late Triassic Epoch). It lasted from 237 to 227 million years ago (Ma). The Carnian is preceded by the Ladinian and is followed by t ...
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Timezgadiouine Formation The Timezgadiouine Formation, sometimes spelled as the Timesgadiouine Formation, is a Triassic geological formation in the Argana Basin of Morocco. It is a succession of red bed sediments spanning from the Olenekian to at least the Carnian, encom ...
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Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
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Further reading

* J.-M. Dutuit. 1989. ''Azarifeneria barrati'', un deuxième genre de dicynodonte du Trias supérieur marocain. Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences. Série 2, Mécanique, Physique, Chimie, Sciences de l'univers, Sciences de la Terre 309(2):303-306 * Dutuit, J.-M., 1980, Principaux caracteres d'un genera de Dicynodonte du Trias marocain: Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de lèAcadémie des Sciences de Paris, tomo 290, p. 655-658.
Classification of synapsid groups in ''Mikko's Phylogeny Archive''
Dicynodonts Carnian genera Triassic synapsids of Africa Mesozoic Morocco Fossils of Morocco Fossil taxa described in 1980 Anomodont genera {{anomodont-stub