Kombuisia

Kombuisia
Temporal range: Early to Middle Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Infraorder: †Dicynodontia
Family: †Kingoriidae
Genus: †Kombuisia
Hotton, 1974
Species
  • †K. frerensis Hotton, 1974 (type)
  • †K. antarctica Fröbisch et al., 2010

Kombuisia is a genus of dicynodont from Early to Middle Triassic (Induan to Anisian) of South Africa and Antarctica. Two species was described for the genus: Kombuisia frerensis (type) [1] and Kombuisia antarctica.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Hotton, N. (1974). "A new dicynodont (Reptilia, Therapsida) from Cynognathus Zone deposits of South Africa". Annals of the South African Museum. 64: 157–165.
  2. ↑ Jörg Fröbisch, Kenneth D. Angielczyk and Christian A. Sidor (2010). "The Triassic dicynodont Kombuisia (Synapsida, Anomodontia) from Antarctica, a refuge from the terrestrial Permian-Triassic mass extinction" (PDF). Naturwissenschaften. 97 (2): 187–196. doi:10.1007/s00114-009-0626-6. PMID 19956920.
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