''Vinceria'' is an extinct
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
kannemeyeriiform
Kannemeyeriiformes is a group of large-bodied Triassic dicynodonts. As a clade, Kannemeyeriiformes has been defined to include the species ''Kannemeyeria simocephalus'' and all dicynodonts more closely related to it than to the species '' Lystro ...
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 ...
in the family
Shansiodontidae
Shansiodontidae is a family of dicynodont therapsid
Therapsida is a major group of eupelycosaurian synapsids that includes mammals, their ancestors and relatives. Many of the traits today seen as unique to mammals had their origin within ea ...
.
[J. F. Bonaparte. (1969). Dos nuevas "faunas" de reptiles triásicos de Argentina wo new reptilian "faunas" of the Argentine Triassic ''Gondwana Stratigraphy (IUGS Symposium, Buenos Aires)'' 2:283-306] Fossils of the genus have been found in the
Anisian
In the geologic timescale, the Anisian is the lower stage or earliest age of the Middle Triassic series or epoch and lasted from million years ago until million years ago. The Anisian Age succeeds the Olenekian Age (part of the Lower Triassic Ep ...
Cerro de las Cabras Formation and
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 ...
Río Seco de la Quebrada Formation
The Río Seco de la Quebrada Formation is a Triassic geological formation in Mendoza Province, Argentina. Fossils of cynodonts such as '' Cynognathus, Diademodon,'' and ''Pascualgnathus'' have been found in this formation, along with dicynodonts ...
of
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
.
One species, ''C. argentinensis'', named in 1966, was moved to its own genus, ''
Acratophorus'', in 2021.
Another species, ''V. vieja'', was merged with ''Acratophorus argentinensis'' in 2021, leaving ''V. andina'' as the only species in the genus.
References
External links
The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
Dicynodonts
Anomodont genera
Anisian genera
Ladinian genera
Carnian genera
Late Triassic synapsids of South America
Middle Triassic synapsids of South America
Triassic Argentina
Fossils of Argentina
Fossil taxa described in 1969
Taxa named by José Bonaparte
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