Langbergia

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Langbergia
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Family: Trirachodontidae
Subfamily: Trirachodontinae
Genus: Langbergia
Abdala et al., 2006
Species
  • L. modisei Abdala et al., 2006 (type)

Langbergia is an extinct genus of trirachodontid cynodont from the Early Triassic of South Africa. The type species L. modisei was named in 2006.[1] Langbergia was found in the Burgersdorp Formation, a part of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone. The closely related trirachodontids Trirachodon and Cricodon were found in the same area.

References

  1. Abdala, F., Neveling, J. and Welman, J. (2006). "A new trirachodontid cynodont from the lower levels of the Burgersdorp Formation (Lower Triassic) of the Beaufort Group, South Africa and the cladistic relationships of Gondwanan gomphodonts". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 147: 383–413. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00224.x. 
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