Placerias

Placerias (meaning 'broad body') is an extinctgenus of dicynodonts that lived during the Carnian and Norianstages of the Triassicperiod (230–215 million years ago). Placerias belongs to a clade of dicynodonts called Kannemeyeriiformes, which was the last known group of dicynodonts before the taxon became extinct at the end of the Triassic.