| Jimusaria | |
|---|---|
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| J. sinkiangensis skull inPaleozoological Museum of China | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Anomodontia |
| Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
| Clade: | †Bidentalia |
| Infraorder: | †Dicynodontoidea |
| Genus: | †Jimusaria Sun,1963 |
| Type species | |
| †Dicynodon sinkianensis Yuan & Young,1934 | |
| Species | |
| Synonyms | |
J. sinkianensis: | |
Jimusaria is anextinctgenus ofdicynodonttherapsid from theLate Permian (Changhsingian) of China. Thetype speciesJ. sinkianensis from theGuodikeng Formation (Jilicao Group) inXinjiang, was originally named as a species ofDicynodon, the first fromAsia, but was given its own genus in 1963 before being sunk back intoDicynodon in 1988. The genus was resurrected in 2011 by palaeontologist Christian Kammerer in ataxonomic revision of the genusDicynodon.Jimusaria was a mid-sized dicynodont, and was similar in appearance to theSouth AfricanDicynodon, but differed from it in features such as its narrower snout.[1] A second species,Jimusaria monanensis was described from theNaobaogou Formation of northern China in 2023.[2]
