Placerias
Extinct genus of dicynodonts / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Placerias (meaning 'broad body')[2] is an extinct genus of dicynodonts that lived during the Carnian to the Norian age of the Triassic Period (230–220 million years ago). Placerias belongs to a group of dicynodonts called Kannemeyeriiformes, which was the last known group of dicynodonts before the taxon became extinct at the end of the Triassic.
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Placerias | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | †Anomodontia |
Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
Family: | †Stahleckeriidae |
Subfamily: | †Placeriinae |
Genus: | †Placerias Lucas, 1904 |
Species: | †P. hesternus |
Binomial name | |
†Placerias hesternus Lucas, 1904 | |
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