''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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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 {{anomodont-stub