''Shaanbeikannemeyeria'' 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 ...
of
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, typic ...
known from the Early Triassic of China. It contains a single species, ''S. xilougoensis'', which was described in 1980 by Zheng-Wu Cheng from a skull catalogued as IGCAGS V315. The specimen was lost, and a
neotype
In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached. In other words, a type is an example that serves to anchor or centralizes the ...
skull IVPP V 11674 was later designated. A second species, ''S. buergondia'', was named by Jin-Lin Li in 1980 from a partial skeleton, but it has since been regarded as a
synonym of ''S. xilougoensis''.
Paleobiology
''Shaanbeikannemeyeria'' hails from the
Ermaying Formation
The Ermaying Formation is a sedimentary succession of Anisian (Middle Triassic) age. It is found in the Shaanxi Province of China. It is composed of an up to 600 m thick sequence of mudstone and sandstone. It is famous for its fossils of tetrapods. ...
, which also yields the genera ''
Fenhosuchus'', ''
Eumetabolodon
''Eumetabolodon'' is an extinct genus of procolophonine procolophonid parareptile from early and middle Triassic (Induan to earliest Anisian stages) deposits of Nei Mongol, northern China. Two species of ''Eumetabolodon'' were named by J. L. L ...
'', ''
Halazhaisuchus
''Halazhaisuchus'' is an extinct genus of archosauriform from the Early Triassic of China. It is known from a single species, ''Halazhaisuchus qiaoensis'', which was named in 1982 from the lower Ermaying Formation in Shaanxi. It was assigned to ...
'', ''
Guchengosuchus
''Guchengosuchus'' is an extinct genus of erythrosuchid archosauriform from the Early Triassic of China. It is known from a single holotype skeleton called IVPP V 8808, described in 1991 from the lower Ermaying Formation in Shanxi. The lower Erma ...
'', ''
Neoprocolophon'', ''
Ordosiodon'', ''
Wangisuchus
''Wangisuchus'' is an extinct genus of archosauriform reptile from the Middle Triassic of China that is known from fragmentary fossil jaw bones. These bones were found at the Hsishihwa locality in the upper Ermaying Formation, which dates to the ...
'' and ''
Shansisuchus''.
See also
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List of therapsids
This list of therapsids is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the Therapsida excluding mammals and purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera tha ...
References
External links
The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
Dicynodonts
Prehistoric synapsids of Asia
Fossil taxa described in 1980
Anomodont genera
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