Kombuisia
Name: Kombuisia.
Phonetic: Kom-bu-se-ah.
Named By: N. Hotton - 1974.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Dicynodontia, Kingoriidae.
Species: K. frerensis
(type), K. antarctica.
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Antarctica. South Africa.
Time period: Induan to Anisian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Kombuisia is a genus of dicynodont that lived during the Triassic. The first fossil remains of Kombuisia were found in South Africa, but a second species, K. antarctica, has now been discovered on the continent of Antarctica.
Further reading
- A new dicynodont (Reptilia, Therapsida) from Cynognathus Zone
deposits of South Africa. - Annals of the South African Museum
64:157-165. - N. Hotton - 1974.
- The Triassic dicynodont Kombuisia
(Synapsida, Anomodontia)
from Antarctica, a refuge from the terrestrial Permian-Triassic mass
extinction. - Naturwissenschaften 97:187-196. - J.
Fröbisch, K. D. Angielczyk & C. A. Sidor -
2010.
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