Lystrosauridae | |
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Life restoration of Lystrosaurus georgi | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | † Anomodontia |
Clade: | † Dicynodontia |
Infraorder: | † Dicynodontoidea |
Family: | † Lystrosauridae Broom, 1903 |
Genera | |
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Lystrosauridae is a family of dicynodont therapsids from the Permian and Triassic time periods. It includes two genera, Lystrosaurus and Kwazulusaurus . [7] Kwazulusaurus includes a single species, K. shakai, from the Late Permian of South Africa [8] and Lystrosaurus includes many species from the Late Permian and Early Triassic of South Africa, India, and Antarctica. [1]