Kannemeyeria

Kannemeyeria Temporal range: Anisian ~247–242 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Skull of Kannemeyeria simocephalus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Suborder:	†Anomodontia
Clade:	†Dicynodontia
Family:	†Kannemeyeriidae
Genus:	†Kannemeyeria Seeley, 1908
Type species
†Kannemeyeria proboscoides Seeley, 1908 (Junior synonym of K. simocephalus)
Species
K. aganosteus Kammerer & Ordoñez, 2021 K. lophorhinus Renaut et al., 2003 K. simocephalus (Weithofer, 1888)
Synonyms
Genus synonymy Proplacerias Cruickshank, 1970  ?Ptychocynodon Seeley, 1904 [nomen nudum?] Sagecephalus Jaekel, 1911 Shaanbeikannemeyeria? Cheng, 1980 Uralokannemeyeria? Danilov, 1971 Species synonymy Synonyms of K. simocephalus: Dicynodon latifrons Broom, 1889 Kannemeyeria erithrea Haughton, 1915 K. proboscoides Seeley, 1909 K. wilsoni Cruickshank, 1970 Proplacerias vanhoepeni (Camp, 1956) ?Ptychocynodon pentangulatus Seeley, 1904 [nomen nudum?] Sagecephalus pachyrhynchus Jaekel, 1911

Kannemeyeria is a genus of dicynodont that lived during the Anisian age of Middle Triassic period in what is now Africa and South America.^[1] The generic name is given in honor of Daniel Rossouw Kannemeyer, the South African fossil collector who discovered the original specimen.^[2] It is one of the first representatives of the family, and hence one of the first large herbivores of the Triassic.