Thliptosaurus
Name:
Thliptosaurus
(compressed lizard).
Phonetic: Flip-to-sor-us.
Named By: C. F. Kammerer - 2019.
Classification: Chordata, Therapsida,
Dicynodontia, Kingoriidae.
Species: T. imperforatus
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Skull 8.6 centimetres long.
Known locations: South Africa.
Time period: Late Permian.
Fossil representation: Skull and mandible.
Thliptosaurus
is a genus of dicynodont
that lived in Africa during the late Permian.
The skull of Thliptosaurus lacked teeth and also
seems to have
lacked the large tusks that are typical in many other dicynodont genera.
Further reading
- A new dicynodont (Anomodontia: Emydopoidea) from the terminal
Permian of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. - Palaeontologia
africana 53:179-191. - C. F. Kammerer - 2019.
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