 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source .(December 2025) |
| Lystrosauravus Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | † Anomodontia |
| Clade: | † Dicynodontia |
| Family: | † Lystrosauridae |
| Genus: | † Lystrosauravus |
| Species: | †L. bothae |
| Binomial name | |
| †Lystrosauravus bothae Kammerer et al., 2025 | |
Lystrosauravus is an extinct genus of dicynodont that lived in what is now the Luangwa Basin of Zambia during the Lopingian epoch.[ citation needed ]
Phylogenetic analysis indicates that Lystrosauravus is the sister taxon to the much more famous genus Lystrosaurus . [1]