Osteichthyes - Dicynodontia - Lystrosauridae
Invalid subtaxa: Dicynodon (Ptychognathus) Owen 1860 [replaced name], Prolystrosaurus Haughton 1917, Ptychognathus Owen 1860 [replaced name], Ptychosiagum Lydekker 1890
Parent taxon: Lystrosauridae according to C. F. Kammerer and K. D. Angielczyk 2009
See also Battail and Surkov 2000, Broom 1913, Broom 1932, Carroll 1988, Cox 1965, Efremov 1940, Ivakhnenko 2008, Kammerer et al. 2011, King 1988, King and Jenkins 1997, Li and Sun 2008, Lydekker 1890, Maisch 2002, Owen 1860, Owen 1861, Seeley 1898, Sun 1973 and Surkov et al. 2005
Sister taxa: Euptychognathus, Kwazulusaurus
Subtaxa: Dicynodon seeleyi Lystrosaurus broomi Lystrosaurus curvatus Lystrosaurus declivis Lystrosaurus georgi Lystrosaurus hedini Lystrosaurus maccaigi Lystrosaurus murrayi Lystrosaurus robustus Lystrosaurus shichanggouensis Lystrosaurus weidenreichi Lystrosaurus youngi Prolystrosaurus strigops
Ecology: herbivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Antarctica (4 collections), China (7), India (18), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (30)
• Permian of China (1), South Africa (5)
Total: 66 collections including 124 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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