''Jimusaria'' is an
extinct
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genus of
dicynodont therapsid from the
Late Permian (
Changhsingian
In the geologic time scale, the Changhsingian or Changxingian is the latest age or uppermost stage of the Permian. It is also the upper or latest of two subdivisions of the Lopingian Epoch or Series. The Changhsingian lasted from to 251.902 mill ...
)
Guodikeng Formation (
Jilicao Group) of
China
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. The
type species ''J. sinkianensis'' was originally named as a species of ''
Dicynodon'', the first from
Asia, but was given its own genus in 1963 before being sunk back into ''Dicynodon'' in 1988. The genus was resurrected in 2011 by palaeontologist Christian Kammerer in a
taxonomic
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revision of the genus ''Dicynodon''. ''Jimusaria'' was a mid-sized dicynodont, and was similar in appearance to the
South African ''Dicynodon'', but differed from it in features such as its narrower snout.
References
Further reading
* A.-l. Sun. 1973.
ermo-Triassic dicynodonts from Turfan, Sinkiang Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (I): Permo-Triassic Vertebrate Fossils of Turfan Basin. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Academia Sinica 10:53-68
* P. L. Yuan and C. C. Young. 1934. On the discovery of a new Dicynodon in Sinkiang. Bulletin of the geological Society of China 13(1):563-574
Dicynodonts
Anomodont genera
Permian synapsids of Asia
Lopingian genus extinctions
Changhsingian
Fossils of China
Paleontology in Xinjiang
Fossil taxa described in 1973
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