Kitchinganomodon
Name:
Kitchinganomodon.
Phonetic: Kit-ching-an-o-mo-don.
Named By: M. W. Maisch - 2002.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida, Therapsida,
Dicynodontia.
Species: K. crasus (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa.
Time period: Wuchiapingian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Kitchinganomodon
is a genus of dicynodont
that lived in South Africa during the Permian. Kitchinganomodon possessed a very powerful and
robust st of jaws which
could easily chew through tough vegetation.
Further reading
- Observations on Karoo and Gondwana vertebrates: Part 4: The
taxonomic status of the Late Permian rhachiocephalid Platycyclops
crassus Broom, 1948 (Therapsida: Dicynodontia) from
the South
African Karoo. - Neues Jahrbuch f�r Mineralogie, Geologie und
Pal�ontologie 6: 362–372. - M. W. Maisch - 2002.
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