Kannemeyeria
| Kannemeyeria Temporal range: Anisian ~ | |
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| Skull of Kannemeyeria simocephalus | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Anomodontia |
| Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
| Family: | †Kannemeyeriidae |
| Genus: | †Kannemeyeria Seeley, 1908 |
| Type species | |
| †Kannemeyeria proboscoides Seeley, 1908 (Junior synonym of K. simocephalus) | |
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Kannemeyeria is a genus of dicynodont that lived during the Anisian age of Middle Triassic period in what is now Africa and South America. The generic name is given in honor of Daniel Rossouw Kannemeyer, the South African fossil collector who discovered the original specimen. It is one of the first representatives of the family, and hence one of the first large herbivores of the Triassic.