Riebeeckosaurus

Riebeeckosaurus
Temporal range: Capitanian
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Suborder: †Dinocephalia
Family: †Tapinocephalidae
Genus: †Riebeeckosaurus
Binomial name
Riebeeckosaurus longirostris

Riebeeckosaurus is an extinct genus of tapinocephalian therapsid from the Guadalupian epoch of Middle Tapinocephalus Zone, lower Beaufort Beds of the Karoo, in South Africa. Only two skulls are known from the type genus.

It was a herbivorous, medium-sized (2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) in length, 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) in mass) dinocephalian, with a very long, slender snout and a narrow intertemporal region with a narrow sagittal crest.

See also

List of synapsids

References

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