Named By: | Harry Govier Seeley in 1908 |
Time Period: | Early Triassic |
Location: | Africa, Asia, India, South America |
Size: | 3 meters long |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Many specimens known |
Classification: | | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | Dicynodontia | Kannemeyeriidae | |
Also known as: | | Shaanbeikannemeyeria | |
Kannemeyeria was a large dicynodont of the family Kannemeyeriidae, one of the first representatives of the family, and hence one of the first large 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).