Pentasaurus
Name:
Pentasaurus.
Phonetic: Pen-tah-sore-us.
Named By: C. F. Kammerer - 2018.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Stahleckeriidae.
Species: P. goggai (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unknown due to lack of remains.
Known locations: South Africa - Lower Elliot
Formation.
Time period: Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Pentasaurus
is a genus of dicynodont
that lived in South Africa during the
Triassic. Pentasaurus should not be confused with
the dinosaur
Pentaceratops.
Further reading
- The first skeletal evidence of a dicynodont from the lower Elliot
Formation of South Africa. - Palaeontologia africana 52:102-128.
- C. F. Kammerer - 2018.
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