Pentasaurus Kammerer 2018 (dicynodont)

Osteichthyes - Dicynodontia - Stahleckeriidae

Full reference: C. F. Kammerer. 2018. The first skeletal evidence of a dicynodont from the lower Elliot Formation of South Africa. Palaeontologia africana 52:102-128

Parent taxon: Placeriinae according to C. F. Kammerer 2018

Sister taxa: Lisowicia, Moghreberia, Placerias, Zambiasaurus

Subtaxa: Pentasaurus goggai

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Type: Pentasaurus goggai

Ecology: herbivore

Distribution: found only at Barnard's Spruit, Aliwal North (zone A/5) (Triassic of South Africa)

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