Lystrosauridae

Lystrosauridae
Temporal range: Late Permian-late Triassic, Possible early Norian record.
Life restoration of Lystrosaurus georgi
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: †Anomodontia
Clade: †Dicynodontia
Infraorder: †Dicynodontoidea
Family: †Lystrosauridae
Broom, 1903
Genera

†?Basilodon Kammerer et al. 2011
†?Jimusaria Sun, 1963
†?Sintocephalus Van Hoepen, 1934
†?Syops Kammerer et al. 2011
†Euptychognathus Kammerer et al. 2011
†Kwazulusaurus Maicsh, 2002
†Lystrosaurus (type) Cope, 1870

Lystrosauridae is a family of dicynodont therapsids from the Permian and Triassic time periods. It includes two genera, Lystrosaurus and Kwazulusaurus. Kwazulusaurus includes a single species, K. shakai, from the Late Permian of South Africa and Lystrosaurus includes many species from the Late Permian and Early Triassic of South Africa, India, and Antarctica.

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