Kannemeyeria

Taxobox
name = "Kannemeyeria"
fossil_range = Early Triassic

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = Life restoration of "Kannemeyeria"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Synapsida
ordo = Therapsida
subordo = Anomodontia
infraordo = Dicynodontia
familia = Kannemeyeriidae
genus = "Kannemeyeria"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"Kannemeyeria" (Unspecified)
*"Kannemeyeria latifrons" (Unspecified)
*"Kannemeyeria simocephala" (Unspecified)
*"Kannemeyeria simocephalica" (Unspecified)
*"Kannemeyeria vanhoepeni" (Unspecified)

"Kannemeyeria" was a large dicynodont of the family Kannemeyeriidae, one of the first representatives of the family, and hence one of the first herbivores of the Triassic. It lived during the later Early and early Middle part of the Triassic period (from the late Olenekian to the Middle Anisian age). "Kannemeyeria" was about 3m (10 ft) in length, about the size of an ox. This dicynodont was well-adapted to living as a herbivore; it had a powerful beak and strong jaw muscles built for shearing plant material. Although it had a large head, it was lightweight due to the size of the eye sockets and nasal cavity. It also had limb girdles which formed massive plates of bone that helped support its heavily-built body.

Various species of the genus "Kannemeyeria" are known from South Africa, Argentina, India, and (either this genus or one extremely similar) China, and it can be assumed that, like many animals of this time, it had worldwide distribution.