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Lystrosauridae
Description | Lystrosauridae is a family of dicynodont therapsids from the Permian and Triassic time periods. It includes two genera, Lystrosaurus and Kwazulusaurus. Kwazulusaurus includes a single species, K. shakai, from the Late Permian of South Africa and Lystrosaurus includes many species from the Late Permian and Early Triassic of South Africa, India, and Antarctica. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lystrosauridae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | family | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Lystrosauridae | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
Classification (GBIF) |
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Scientific Name | Lystrosauridae | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lystrosauridae |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Basilodon genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Euptychognathus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Kwazulusaurus ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 260 Ma Permian | 260 Ma Permian | |
Lystrosaurus ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 123 | 265 Ma Permian | 251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic | |
Prolystrosaurus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!