Taognathus
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Genus: | Taognathus
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Taognathus is an extinct genus of dicynodont, a non-mammalian synapsid. Taognathus lived in South Africa during the Tatarian Age, Lopingian Subepoch, Zechstein Epoch, in the Late Permian, and was named by Scottish South African doctor and paleontologist Robert Broom in 1911. Its diet was herbivorous.
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Categories:
- Dicynodonts
- Lopingian synapsids of Africa
- Fossil taxa described in 1911
- Taxa named by Robert Broom
- Lopingian genus first appearances
- Lopingian genus extinctions
- Anomodont stubs