Sinokannemeyeria

Taxobox
name = "Sinokannemeyeria"

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = Restoration of "Sinokannemeyeria"
fossil_range = late Early Triassic
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Synapsida
ordo = Therapsida
subordo = Anomodontia
infraordo = Dicynodontia
familia = Kannemeyeriidae
genus = "Sinokannemeyeria"

"Sinokannemeyeria" was a large, long snouted, Chinese dicynodont with downward-pointing tusks that grew from bulbous projections on its upper jaw. The muscle attachment sites on the back of the skull were quite small, which suggestd that "Sinokannemeyeria" did not have powerful skull muscles for shearing plants, unlike other dicynodonts. Most dicynodonts chopped up food by sliding their lower jaws backward and forward. "Sinokannemeyeria" fed by tearing plant material with the front of the snout.

"Sinokannemeyeria" and the other kannemeyeriines descended from ancestors similar to "Lystrosaurus".