Dinodontosaurus

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Dinodontosaurus Fossil range: Middle Triassic
Pups of Dinodontosaurus turpior
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Synapsida Order: Therapsida Suborder: Anomodontia Infraorder: Dicynodontia Family: Kannemeyeriidae Genus: Dinodontosaurus Romer, 1943
Species
D. oliveirai Romer, 1943 (type) D. tener von Huene, 1935 [originally Dicynodon tener]) D. turpior (von Huene, 1935 [originally Dicynodon turpior])

Dinodontosaurus is a genus of dicynodont therapsid. It was one of the largest herbivores of the Triassic and had a beak corneum. It lived in the Middle Triassic but disappeared in the Upper Triassic.
Dinodontosaurus turpior^[1] is the most common species of dicynodont that existed in the Middle Triassic, and more common in the fossil layers that age in Rio Grande do Sul, in geopark of paleorrota. They are found mainly in the Paleontological Site Chiniquá in São Pedro do Sul and Candelária , where a group of ten pups^[2] were found together, demonstrating that these animals had strategies for coexistence in a group and caring for their offspring.

[edit] See also

• Paleorrota

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• Dinosaurs of Rio grande do Sul.