| Vivaxosaurus Temporal range: Late Permian
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| Genus: | Vivaxosaurus Kalandadze & Kurkin, 2000
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Vivaxosaurus is a genus of dicynodont from Late Permian (Changhsingian) of Russia.[1][2] It has been found at Sokolki on the Northern Dvina River near Kotlas in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lived during the latest Permian, and was a contemporary of Inostrancevia, Scutosaurus and Dvinia. Like all members of the genus, this animal was toothless, except for prominent tusks, and probably cropped vegetation with a horny beak, like a tortoise.
- ^ Kalandadze, N.N. & Kurkin, A.A. (2000). "A new Permian dicynodont and the question of the origin of the kannemeyeroidea". Paleontological Journal. 34 (6): 642–649.
- ^ "Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology". Taylor & Francis.