Dinartamus

Dinartamus
Temporal range: Capitanian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Suborder: Dinocephalia
Family: Titanosuchidae
Genus: Dinartamus
Broom, 1923
Binomial name
Dinartamus vanderbyli

Dinartamus is a genus of titanosuchian therapsid.

This Genus is only known through poor fossil record, therefore there are few diagnostic characters known which are merely sufficient for classifying it as a titanosuchian.[1]

References

  1. Boonstra, L. D. (1969). "The fauna of the Tapinocephalus zone (Beaufort beds of the Karoo)". Annals of the South African museum (Cape Town) 56 (1): 37.
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