| Shaanbeikannemeyeria | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Anomodontia |
| Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
| Clade: | †Kannemeyeriiformes |
| Genus: | †Shaanbeikannemeyeria Cheng, 1980 |
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Shaanbeikannemeyeria is an extinctgenus ofdicynodont known from the Early Triassic of China.[1] It contains a single species,S. xilougoensis, which was described in 1980 by Zheng-Wu Cheng from a skull catalogued as IGCAGS V315. The specimen was lost, and aneotype skull IVPP V 11674 was later designated. A second species,S. buergondia, was named by Jin-Lin Li in 1980 from a partial skeleton,[2] but it has since been regarded as asynonym ofS. xilougoensis.[3]
Shaanbeikannemeyeria hails from theErmaying Formation, which also yields the generaFenhosuchus,Eumetabolodon,Halazhaisuchus,Guchengosuchus,Neoprocolophon,Ordosiodon,Wangisuchus andShansisuchus.[4]
