Stahleckeria

Stahleckeria
Fossil range: Triassic

Stahleckeria potens

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Synapsida
Order:	Therapsida
Suborder:	Anomodontia
Infraorder:	Dicynodontia
Family:	Stahleckeriidae
Genus:	Stahleckeria Friedrich von Huene, 1935

Species

Stahleckeria was a Middle Triassic dicynodont, living about 240 million years ago. It was similar to Kannemeyeria and their kin. It is sometimes pictured as a hairy mammal-like reptile, or a bumpy, scaly beast. Dicynodonts are mammal-like reptiles, the opposites of cynodonts (who are very mammal-like).

Stahleckeria potens^[1] was collected for the first time by paleontologist Friedrich von Huene in 1935, in Paleontological Site Chiniquá located on geopark of paleorrota in Brazil. It was a herbivore that is found in the Santa Maria Formation, has 4 meters and weighed approximately 400 kg. They lived with Dinodontosaurus, although less often and differed from the same by its larger size. The differences between Stahleckeria and Dinodontosaurus certainly reflected adjustments for feeds based on different types of plants.
The fossils of Stahleckeria potens are currently in Germany in the museum of the University of Tübingen.