Ischigualastia

Taxobox
name = "Ischigualastia"
fossil_range = Late Triassic
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Synapsida
ordo = Therapsida
subordo = Anomodontia
infraordo = Dicynodontia
familia = Kannemeyeriidae
genus = "Ischigualastia"
genus_authority = Cox, 1962
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "I. jenseni" (type species)

"Ischigualastia" was a dicynodont (a group of mammal-like reptiles) that lived during the Carnian age of the Late Triassic Period. From the Ischigualasto Formation of Argentina, it was a member of the family Kannemeyeridae.cite book |last=Carroll |first=Robert L. |title=Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution |year=1988 |publisher=W.H. Freeman and Company |isbn=0716718227 ] It is regarded as larger than its later, more famous relative "Placerias", which was up to 3.5 meters long (11.5 ft) and weighed one to two tonnes (1.1 to 2.2 short tons). Unlike "Placerias", it lacked tusks. It was a large quadrupedal herbivore, most common at the base of the Ischigualasto Formation.cite web |url=http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/400Therapsida/400.725.html |title=Therapsida: Neotherapsida: Dicynodontia |accessdate=2007-07-29 |last=Kazlev |first=M.A. |coauthors=and White, A.T. |date=2004-02-01 |work=Palaeos ]

References

External links

* [http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/400Therapsida/400.725.html#Ischigualastia "Ischigualastia"] at Palaeos.com.