Vivaxosaurus

Vivaxosaurus
Temporal range: Late Permian
Life restoration of Vivaxosaurus trautscholdi
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Vivaxosaurus

Kalandadze & Kurkin, 2000
Species
  • V. trautscholdi
Synonyms
  • Fortunodon Kurkin, 2012

Vivaxosaurus is a genus of dicynodont from Late Permian (Changhsingian) of Russia. It has been found at Sokolki on the Northern Dvina River near Kotlas in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lived during the latest Permian, and was a contemporary of Inostrancevia, Scutosaurus and Dvinia. Like all members of the genus, this animal was toothless, except for prominent tusks, and probably cropped vegetation with a horny beak, like a tortoise.